Sentence examples for I preferred instead from inspiring English sources

For instance, I wanted to tell him that feather-light touch too soon made me ticklish, and I preferred instead a more grounding grasp to start.

I prefer instead the stoic, tough-facedness of the men and women in photos from a hundred years ago.

I prefer instead to emphasize the non-universality of the gender disparity and suggest that the fact that seven of the twenty law reviews I studied did not display a significant gender disparity continues a positive narrative about women's increasing participation in law schools and the legal profession.

I prefer, instead, to make mine during mental health crises, when they tend to actually stick.

I prefer instead to think of his incarnation and death as the "at-one-ment," whereby Jesus made possible our becoming one with God, of joining in the dance.

This was never something I used to do when I worked, preferring instead to give my clients a minute or two of quiet by themselves.

This is never something I used to do when I worked, preferring instead to give my clients a minute or two of quiet by themselves.

I could draw other analogies, but I'd prefer instead to look ahead 375 years and how much grander Harvard's tradition will seem in retrospect when it has broken from the past and fashioned a new university based on merit and equal access.

The client preferred instead to script the role-play scenario.

Mr. Proctor preferred instead the golf links west of campus.

Using catalytic rotating basket reactors is often preferred instead of catalytic slurry reactors.