Sentence examples for preferred her first from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Hines's mother preferred her first son.

The least important may be that Gautreau preferred her second name -- Amélie -- to Virginie, by which she is best known.

Moore prefers her first-person experiences alchemized into violin solos: compositions that blend emotional eloquence with abstraction, and thus come closer to illumining a psychic interior.

The sense that his adored mother might actually have preferred her uncomplicated first-born boy was a powerful part of the creative mix – the "internal wound", as he called it – that made Ted Hughes a poet.

As presented here, that path began with her immersion in 12-tone music and set aside the milder, more Neo-Classical style she preferred during her first 20 years in New York.

(Like many addicts, she preferred that only her first name be used).

Hillary Rodham Clinton might have preferred to use her first big policy announcement to discuss confronting stagnant middle-class wages, or runaway higher-education costs, or even big money in politics.

She prefers to write her first drafts in longhand, sitting on a sofa.

(After receiving death threats when she went public about her home, she prefers that only her first name be used).

She prefers him to her first, Russian, husband who drank himself to death at the age of 47, leaving her with three children.

Many critics praised Paltrow's performance, preferring it to her first appearance in "The Substitute", though they disagreed over how Paltrow was used.