Sentence examples for i prefer passing from inspiring English sources

"I'll shoot the ball when I'm open, but I prefer passing the ball.

Rather than read it through as you would read a novel, or an epic, or another kind of book-size poem, you can wander through "ARK" as if through a sculpture garden, or a gallery, marvelling at the installations you prefer, passing by those that leave you cold.

Having lived and worked as female for two years, I've finally completed the Real Life Experience or, if you prefer, passed the Real Life Test (as it's also been known).

Pelosi prefers passing big legislation to message bills.

In an interview, Koppell said he would have preferred passing a bill he co-sponsored with Fidler in February.

He was a basketball savant who could dominate a game without scoring, who preferred passing to shooting, who elevated his team with his intelligence alone.

And the boys preferred passing a football instead of kicking a soccer ball.

Up to that point, Chekhov, known as "Russia's most elusive literary bachelor," had preferred passing liaisons and visits to brothels over commitment.

MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: I prefer to pass on to the next question.

MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: I do not want you to repeat what you said yesterday; if you do not want to answer me, I prefer to pass on to the next question.

He writes in his autobiography, "I prefer to pass over our sufferings during the eight months we were there" (2002: 283); he rarely mentioned them (except when more fortunate critics of his views rashly imputed to him the exemption from a wider experience of life that can be the privilege of an Oxford fellowship).