Sentence examples for prefer down from inspiring English sources

"I would prefer 'Down with Dolan,' " he said.

"Who are you?," on the other hand, is an inquiry that plunges this obsessive rationalist — or rational obsessive, if you prefer — down a rabbit hole of indeterminacy.

You don't have to be over-energetic, people don't expect that and many people actually prefer down to earth people.

Which would you prefer: down-home Southern cooking for the in-laws or dinners for ten elderly men from the U.N.? Of the fancier options, the one that drew me in most was "Barefoot Contessa," which is set in East Hampton, a luxurious Narnia in which guests are due for cocktails in the new library.

In America, cognac is the drink of choice of African-American rappers, who prefer downing it on the rocks.The firm's latest results, released this week, show that incorporating Allied Domecq has reduced Pernod's growth rate, which has been slowing lately in any case.

If the Treasury and the Chancellor, George Osborne, preferred Downing Street to travel to Edinburgh armed with numbers rather than emotions, they will be disappointed.

In his review of The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season, DVD Verdict's Mac McEntire wrote that, while he prefers "down-to-Earth" episodes, the more "outrageous" episodes like "Skinner's Sense of Snow" are the ones that are "standouts".

Jackie shrugged off her mother's knitting and preferred down vests (a rarity in Britain in those days), which left me as the sole beneficiary.

Wikipedia [ 19], a free on-line encyclopedia prefers "Down syndrome" as main heading, while it includes possessive form for many other eponyms (eg, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease).

I prefer dressing down to dressing up.

The cost of letting employees go is so onerous, he told Spanish television, that "many times companies prefer closing down to downsizing".