Sentence examples for besides preferring from inspiring English sources

An ordinary woman, with little taste in fashion (besides preferring modern trends), might take a white oxford blouse and pair it with the obvious black pencil skirt, black patent pumps, and, if she's really daring, a red leather handbag.

Besides preferring to stay in Europe, though, the 6-foot-3, 180-pound Prigioni had a buyout in his contract that was worth about $2 million, and the Knicks had point guards under contract.

They are also more traditional in their cannabis preferences, preferring to smoke joints, and are generally unwilling to consider cannabis in other forms besides flower.

We might not be best friends but there's no need to make a decision in haste ignoring outside council, and besides, I prefer not to piss him off.

Besides these very practical reasons for preferring Mr. Libeskind's chosen location -- and besides his eloquent aesthetic and symbolic arguments -- there is another excellent reason to keep the tower in that position.

But this is rarely possible, and besides, the children have become inured to street life, preferring the familiar steel, metal and cement environment of North Station and its inhospitable byways to the forbidding institutions or homes they've never known.

Preferring to take her chances in the wild woods, Merida encounters a mysterious enchanter who offers to cast a spell that will change her mother's mind and a whole lot more besides..

To this end there is much that government can do besides the Conservatives' preferred option of getting out of the way.

And besides, he added, "we prefer to talk about the future.

For those who prefer something besides steak in Tampa, it's a short cab ride over to Ybor City, where the Columbia, old and charming, reminds potential customers that it was "voted the best Spanish restaurant in Tampa Bay".

("Let me ask you, is there a term besides 'Mexican' that you prefer?" Scott memorably asks one employee in the episode called Diversity Day. "Something less offensive?") Commercially, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is clearly already part of this upward trajectory, though it's a difficult film to like.