Sentence examples for begin to prefer from inspiring English sources

At some point, the neurotically wired begin to prefer negative certitudes -- or compartmentalized threats -- to ambiguity.

Set in a grim tract house in North Hollywood, the film chronicles the process by which people become attached to objects and begin to prefer them to people.

As people begin to age, they tend to begin to prefer more direct genital stimulation, so this is a time to request more direct care and attention from a partner, or to provide it for one's self.

Researchers have found that if they can get people to pay more attention to a particular type of junk food, they will begin to prefer it even weeks or months after the experiment.

Hunter-gatherer children generally stay within eyeshot or at least hearing distance of their mothers or other adults until they are about four years old, at which age they begin to prefer the company of other children and begin to run freely with other kids.

Now while I'm fine with these things playing ball, I worry what will happen when they get tired of these jackanapes and begin to prefer controlling humans by threatening them with live grenades thrown hither and yon as we cower in fear of our new robotic masters.

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.