Similar words: prefer, preferable, preference, refer, refer to, reference, marred, deference. Meaning: [prɪ'fɜrd /-'fɜːd] adj. 1. more desirable than another 2. preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
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61. In large buildings, communication with other staff if often not easy but discretion is preferred to valour!
62. She would even have preferred more of his contemptuous accusations to this present chilling remoteness.
63. Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.
64. But how I would have preferred disaster to my role as rejected conspirator and failed renegade.
65. The next highest figures were 17 percent who put benefits above wages, and another 17 percent who preferred career advancement opportunities.
66. Of those surveyed, 58.6% preferred to take one or two long breaks as opposed to several short weekend breaks.
67. Any spare cash he preferred to donate to more worthy causes.
68. Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent, however, and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority.
69. The exhibition organisers have preferred to explore the social, political and religious mechanisms of the Etruscan confederation of city-states.
70. He preferred to remain aloof, an invisible presence worshipped from afar.
71. Although they may develop attachments to several people, one person will be preferred.
72. Fred preferred not to reply, and concentrated his attention on the screen.
73. Speakers of different languages and cultural backgrounds, and from different social groups, vary quite significantly in their preferred language norms.
74. It is not the safe strategy that some Dole aides preferred.
75. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
76. Gedge largely preferred late night debates to attending stolid committee meetings in upstairs pub rooms or pushing by-election leaflets through doors.
77. Although he made some magnificent paintings and drawings of it he preferred a milder climate to produce his masterpieces.
78. It was a bitter blow when the trustees preferred the reprint.
79. Local people on the whole preferred a modern bungalow to a picturesque cottage.
80. When hiring band members, Lawrence always preferred less talented musicians of good character over brilliant musicians of unstable character.
81. This Paufer preferred drinking to eating, and spent his slim budget proportionately.
82. Together they made their way to the patch of thorn bushes which was Sabina's preferred place for drying.
83. With older wild goose, braising is the preferred method of cooking.
83. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
84. In a test last year, tasters preferred London tap water to bottled mineral waters.
85. Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.
86. Frozen duck is perfectly acceptable, but-as with most products-fresh is preferred.
87. As we shall see in Chapter 4, its ideas are echoed in many studies of women's preferred conversational style.
88. If life at home becomes impossible, well-run alternative accommodation where individual privacy and dignity are respected is preferred.
89. On none of these courses was there any examination: continuous assessment was preferred.
90. Longer runway preferred How would an air cargo hub affect those developments?
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