Sentence examples for merely prefer from inspiring English sources

American Presidents no longer command; they merely prefer.

There are very, very old people; there are not-so-old neighbors who merely prefer to adopt the habits of the ancient.

If you're not a ski bunny (or merely prefer chasing them), here are a few more options.

Pence merely prefers to eat alone.

Mr. Spinella's Jaques merely prefers thinking to dancing, and marches quietly off in search of more cerebral food.

Dispensing justice like this is a more elaborate conceptual operation than merely preferring good to bad, but there are still-more-elaborate moral calculations that adults, at least, can easily make.

For Sorabji his financial gain was the continuation of his municipal salary, so that he could keep his school open, rather than a craven payment for services rendered to the Christian authorities; he did not betray his friends; he did not betray philosophy, since he merely preferred the teaching of Porphyry in the matter of divine names and theurgy to that of Iamblichus and Proclus.

MSNBC's Roberts claims that he's not ducking the issue of Trump's relationship with Putin, but won't call the Republican's current disavowals lies, merely preferring the false equivalence of saying he's made two completely diametrically opposing claims and treating both as equally valid.

This does not mean that they are bad things, it is merely a matter of audience dynamics: some audiences just prefer physical action while other prefer verbal sparring.

When balletomanes speak merely of preferring this dancer to that, they often become boring to the rest of the human race.

It is not merely that manufacturers prefer the one to the other but rather that these substances are free from the great drawback fundamental to wood movement.