Sentence examples for preferred death from inspiring English sources

He preferred death to dependency.

Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, offered him exile; he said he preferred death.

"He had previously indicated he preferred death to life in prison without the possibility of parole".

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

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

The Zealots, however, preferred death to enslavement, and the conquerors found that the defenders, led by Eleazar ben Jair, had taken their own lives (April 15, 73 ce).

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

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

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?