Sentence examples for prefer death from inspiring English sources

"We prefer death to anything less than dignity and freedom".

And later, we will come not to accept it, to prefer death over failure.

"We would prefer death to the government of fascists," he said.

Is it any surprise, really, that they would prefer death rather than have no end in sight to their confinement?

Throughout history, people have made the choice to prefer death over survival at too high a price.

In a television interview this week, he said he would prefer death to exile and repeated his claim to have no weapons of mass destruction.

He preferred death to dependency.

He prefers death to life, darkness to light.

I understood why my Italian nonna preferred death to the hospital.

The Yorkist army melted away, while Richard, preferring death, was unhorsed and killed in the bog.

There were scores of Christians who preferred death, though the great majority complied or hid themselves.