Sentence examples for it would sooner from inspiring English sources

Jean Dubuffet, the 20th century painter and impresario of the insane who coined the term art brut, famously said, "Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it; it would sooner run away than say its own name".

"The base is a base, we all knew it would sooner or later come down.

As late as Friday, the group had said it would sooner cancel the offering than cut the price.

Nothing that matters has changed, except one thing, and for the worse the government has become a big investor on Wall Street.As Alan Greenspan pointed out on January 20th, if the government owned lots of stock, it would sooner or later be tempted to invest with political rather than economic aims in mind.

Walking in the rubble when I returned to Iraq after a long summer break, I sensed a warning written stories high in the debris: that if Al Qaeda had come for the United Nations, it would sooner or later come for us.

When the third and final series of Father Ted finished some 10 years ago it seemed that those who loved it would sooner die by the smite of an angered God than spend a weekend devoted to it on a tiny island off Ireland's west coast.

But the truth is I've routinely put it off because I would sooner die than not be good at something immediately.

I'll just have a go at it and I may make a terrible mess of it but I'd sooner make a mess than not have a go at all.

I had a dad feeling it would happen sooner rather than later.

A spokesman denied reacting to Mr. Bruno's push but said the governor would make his own reform proposal, and that it would come "sooner rather than later".

"There has been every indication that Janet was going to be Russ's successor and that it would happen sooner rather than later," Mr. Gruneich said.