Sentence examples for preferred piece from inspiring English sources

Some animals that lost the game - receiving a bland piece of cucumber rather than a preferred piece of banana - reacted with what looked like the ape equivalent of a tantrum.

I wonder, too, if the widow has a preferred piece of furniture, but I feel no real impulse to investigate.

Music is a key component in achieving a trance state in tromba (or bilo) spiritual rituals practiced in several regions of the island, as it is believed that each spirit has a different preferred piece of music.

Margaret E. Knight, they said, was a tomboy of sorts, who preferred piecing together puzzling machinery rather than playing with dolls.

Manufacturers prefer piece dyeing, which allows stocking of white goods, reducing the risk of being overstocked with cloth dyed in colours that have not been ordered.

Many cooks prefer pieces about 2 inches (5.1 cm) long by 1 1/2 inches (5.1 cm) wide.

Like Harriet's preferred chess piece, the knight, Tartt's narrative moves sneakily, zigzagging to its almost casual revelation about the identity of "the little friend," so that you are forced to replay all of the author's moves up to that point.

Briefly, the subjects who took the longest to reach without accompanying preferred musical pieces also took the longest to reach with accompanying preferred musical pieces.

Subjects who had the highest movement element scores without accompanying preferred musical pieces also had the highest movement element scores with accompanying preferred musical pieces.

She preferred one-piece shields free of vented cutouts, which she said impeded her vision.

The relation between biomechanical measurement of reaching with and without accompanying preferred musical pieces is summarized in Figure 12 top.