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Example sentences for: preferring

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

His wife was afraid to fly with him, preferring to travel with a professional pilot or drive herself.
It is staying out of this whole tawdry mess, preferring to examine more elevated topics such as the possibility that actor Jim Carrey believes the spirit of late comedian Andy Kaufman has taken over his body.
The Weekly Standard is Stalinist for preferring a conservative view of the world in Franklin Foer's "But Is It Art Criticism?"
Midlist Crisis: Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the "midlist " book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
Until recently, the Hungarians accepted foreign words only grudgingly, preferring to create new ones of their own.