Sentence examples for preferred pocket from inspiring English sources

Men preferred pocket watches.

Murat, the Queen of Naples, bought many more Breguet's but all of them were pocket watches, a form that sustained the watchmaking industry until World War I. Men, after all, preferred pocket watches, calling wristwatches "wristlets" fit only for women.

"The Maids," an early play by Jean Genet, that mid-20th century bad boy of French letters, normally slinks under the radar of our commercialized theater, preferring pocket venues of dingy ambience or university theaters with brooding undergraduates eager to become disciples of yesterday's iconoclasts.

The fashionable Valentino wore a wristwatch, a relatively new invention, which was considered far too much like a bracelet by macho types who preferred the pocket variety.

In DPβ, residues 84 87 form a linked unit, which influences the size and charge of the amino-acid side chains of antigens preferred by pocket 1.

He prefers the pocket but is a gifted athlete who runs when pressured and is incredibly accurate even when on the run.

They'd prefer to pocket the dough.

Perhaps you'll find that you prefer a pocket rocket.

Extensive SAR around the P2 side chain suggested that the S2 site was permissive while the S3 pocket preferred a bulkier tert-butyl glycine (Tbg, also known as tert-leucine) over the native valine residue.

In the choice between the three different financing systems presented in Figure 1, a majority (52%) of respondents preferred out-of-pocket financing, system A. Among the rest, preferences were stronger for compulsory (28%) rather than voluntary (20%) health insurance.

Some of the respondents who preferred out-of-pocket financing to insurance may have stated a zero WTP for insurance.