Sentence examples for preferred to do from inspiring English sources

"But, no, Naomi preferred to do other things.

Most of us preferred to do our entertaining when our husbands were free.

He'd have preferred to do other things than paint houses or write during his waking hours.

"Our kids would have preferred to do this in four years.

"I'd have preferred to do the whole thing by e-mail," he grumbles.

And yet still Inman preferred to do nothing, a decision he stood by decades later.

I'm a regular guy, a caveman, so when it came to fitness, I preferred to do my own thing.

Was the Swedish Academy once again shunning political controversy as it has so often preferred to do in the past?

Still, when he gave money to the American gay liberation cause, Gielgud preferred to do it anonymously.

"I would have preferred to do it in a private way, particularly because of what happened," Hansen said.

Shortness of time for reading was a problem for 29% of respondents, 40% preferred to do something else and 26% said they "didn't enjoy reading very much".