Sentence examples for have been preferable from inspiring English sources

Still, that would have been preferable to what happened.

He too said capturing Emwazi alive would have been preferable.

Careful preparation of smaller portions would have been preferable.

Combinable apartments would have been preferable, Ms. Ebert said.

"A and O times 4" would have been preferable.

Old, familiar red cocktail sauce would have been preferable.

Radjabov's 16... Bd8 misplaced his bishop; 16... Rfe8 would have been preferable.

It may have been preferable to have interviewed him at the time.

Anne-Catherine Gillet's Micaela is timorous rather than morally strong, which might have been preferable here.

What might have been preferable is a Neruda who is the sum of his finest parts.

(Perhaps it would have been preferable to remove the sheep last).