Sentence examples for came preferred from inspiring English sources

(In the typewritten history of the first 50 years of the troop, it was noted that "membership continued to drop and most of those who came preferred basketball to Scouting").

Then comes preferred stock, a creature that trades like common yet offers bondish yields.

Even Mr. Tutus's wife, a Syriac herself, and his children, aged 11 and 7, will not come, preferring to stay in Frankfurt after being badly frightened during a visit to Idil.

Over time I have come prefer the term "just-awareness" to "just-sitting," since I feel that "just-awareness" better captures the living beauty of the practice.

Stone came to prefer working on these kinds of race.

It was English, which I had absorbed during my hospital stay, that I came to prefer.

They adjusted, and in some cases came to prefer well-designed automated systems over human assistance.

The market came to prefer a different term: "synthetic collateralized debt obligations".

He first hitchhiked, whizzing through St . Louis but soon came to prefer trains.

Boston came to prefer Javier Vazquez, another talented Expos right-hander, to Colón, but talks with Minaya nevertheless stalled.

And yet in her letters she says that finally she came to prefer the guards to her fellow-prisoners.