Sentence examples for began preferring from inspiring English sources

And many small vendors began preferring, or even requiring, payments with credit cards.

At which point we (well, OK, me again) began preferring log flumes, ET's gentle ride through starry skies and the candy-coloured Seuss Landing area.

But then a funny thing happened: we began to prefer the diminished substitutes.

We began to prefer the homeliness and seeming authenticity that standup offers.

As he moved into his later years, Mailer began to prefer the bourgeois comforts of home to the literary arena.

Amid growing public fears about kidnapping during the 1980's, parents began to prefer playgrounds with unobstructed views.

The sport lost its momentum when young people seeking a road to riches began to prefer shooting baskets to getting clubbed in the face.

Just recently the creamery began selling preferred stock so people here can own a piece of something local and organic that makes them proud.

During this final period his painting, which he began to prefer to call "concrete" rather than "abstract," became to some extent a synthesis of the organic manner of the Munich period and the geometric manner of the Bauhaus period.

Meanwhile, as people began to prefer bigger, richer red wines like Valpolicella's brawnier sibling, Amarone, producers began to reserve their best grapes and vineyards for more profitable Amarone production.

"People began to prefer umlessness in public speaking and conversation around the same time that they began to value order, organization, planning and efficiency in an increasingly complex and urbanizing society," he writes.