Sentence examples for less preferring from inspiring English sources

The islanders farmed little and fished less, preferring to subsist on seabirds.

After that, they visited the house less and less, preferring to stay at their Victorian house in Harlem.

We fix less and less, preferring to buy a new sink than mend a tap, and our furniture comes ready-made or constructed from characterless flatpacks.

In a study last year of 312 freshmen at Bridgewater State University, Dr. Englander found that 75 percent reported that during a typical high school day they had used their cellphones for voice communication 30 percent of the time or less, preferring to use them for texting, sending photos and videos, and surfing the Internet.

Fagus grandifolia and Prunus serotina were less preferred.

Furthermore, in one case, nitrogen supplementation made the wine less preferred in a taste panel.

We present evidence that drained areas had remained relatively wet and were less preferred by sheep.

Solving this problem with a primary variable switching method is less preferred due to the mathematical complexity.

However, this reduction also occurred when using Bt collards as a trap crop, despite collards being less preferred for oviposition.

This indicates that BMPs are aesthetically appealing individually but when BMPs exist for every component in the landscape, the landscape is less preferred.

In Experiment 2, we assessed how much participants (n = 301) would be willing to pay for stimuli oriented in a more versus less preferred orientation.