Sentence examples for preferring not to from inspiring English sources

North used a game-invitational limit raise, preferring not to show his weak spade suit.

Other investigators were more circumspect, preferring not to rule out anything.

Roy seems terse in speaking to his announcers, preferring not to tell them what to say.

Preferring not to take a chance, Ms. Rodenburg asks for the understudy to play the role.

West led his lowest club, preferring not to select a suit bid by an opponent.

The companies balked, preferring not to get mixed up in an international squabble.

Preferring not to choose among wind, solar or other alternative energies, Mr. Steinrueck has focused on energy storage.

He may be in denial, knowing and not knowing, knowing and preferring not to think about it.

He is a refreshingly unreflective superhero, preferring not to spend much time gazing at his rocky navel.

You close your eyes to flaws, sometimes significant ones, preferring not to see them, even as others point them out.

Neither did, although the Angels replaced Anthony Ortega in the seventh, preferring not to push their luck past 100 pitches.