Sentence examples for preferred like from inspiring English sources

(English vegetarians preferred "like the Tartars").

Yen, an older regular who preferred, like every gambler I met, not to give his full name, scanned the television screens for clues about the horses.

It was clear which approach Mr Zook preferred: "Like so many of the businesses now experiencing troubles after the long boom, Amazon tried to diversify too far and too fast".

Even those writers who preferred, like Dunsany, to set their fiction in wholly imaginary worlds — Tolkien is the best-known example — felt their work shaped by the war's horrors.

Would my sophisticated chums have preferred, like medieval pirates, to have arrived in Liguria to find empty, beachless, cafeless shores, and to scrabble up unpopulated rock faces to feast their eyes on the vegetation in utter solitude?

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Yet Hikmat never used his ornate bed, preferring, like most Afghans, to sleep on a mat on the floor.

Dos Santos speaks several languages but never talks to the media, preferring, like her father, to maintain a low profile.

But if you can overlook such impediments, the food will light your way like a beacon -- or, if you prefer, like a song with scents and colors.

Somehow, the idyllic Alpine villages that I usually prefer, like St. Anton in Austria, with their cute chalets, bottomless fondues and Edelweiss-themed kitsch, seemed inappropriate.

"Mr. Furtwängler, like the good Nazi he is, cannot tolerate mysteries, and it was rather like a fried egg, and, if you prefer, like a foot put in it, that he presented this music".