Example sentences for: preferential

How can you use “preferential” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "The Standard," as he called it, used this strategy first in the "Cleveland Massacre" of 1872, wielding a contract with the railroads that promised preferential rates and taking over 22 of 26 competitors in the blink of an eye.

  • Since the 1970s, preferential tax treatment has been granted to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and employer-sponsored 401(k) pension plans.

  • It is also possible that a more rapid cellular uptake of gamma-tocopherol (and removal from plasma) could contribute to the preferential maintenance of alpha-tocopherol in plasma.

  • The preferential expression of many of the genes in these sets had been previously shown by genetic or molecular analysis.

  • We also confirmed the preferential expression of ten genes that had not been previously characterized by in situ hybridization to imaginal discs.


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