Sentence examples for preferred to hold from inspiring English sources

He preferred to hold the cards.

Wouldn't she have preferred to hold on to such treasures?

The Labour leaders would have preferred to hold out for new negotiations with the Palestinians.

He said he would have preferred to hold the trial far south of here, in Jericho, but Israeli travel restrictions made that impossible.

In the early 1920s, Chaplin preferred to hold to his deal with First National - thus The Kid and The Pilgrim were denied to UA.

That indicated banks still preferred to hold cash rather than lend it.The hoarding is a natural consequence of the breakdown of the securitisation market.

"They prefer to hold onto the cash".

So they hate inflation and prefer to hold on to their insider rents.

The Agnellis and other shareholders might well prefer to hold shares in GM.

As its stock slides, AOL would prefer to hold on to its cash.

Cameron indicated that he would prefer to hold the referendum reasonably soon.