Sentence examples for preferring words from inspiring English sources

He was a tall, gentle boy and took after his mother, he said, preferring words to fists.

(Hadid rarely uses the word "space" in talking about her designs, preferring words like "energy" and "field" and "ground conditions"; the dynamism of the city, rather than the static forms of buildings within it, is her source of inspiration).

French, except in the 16th century, was influenced grammatically less by Latin, but from the 14th century onward the habit of preferring words with a quasi-Latin shape to inherited forms became well established, so that much of the French vocabulary has a "learned" appearance.

While Mr. Fernández-Armesto generally writes with verve, he succumbs occasionally to highfalutin professorisms, referring to "unremittingly ichthyophagous breakfasters" -- does he mean people who like bagels and lox? -- and preferring words like "biota," "masticable," "pinguid" and "embourgeoisement," where perhaps simpler words would do.

Zappos has advertised sparingly thus far, preferring word of mouth, and (unlike most companies) encourages employees to let it all hang out on Twitter and Facebook.

But he prefers words like "fees" and "surcharges".

For those who prefer words, both the Times and the Post settled on the same adjective, "punchless," to describe the team's performance.

He prefers words like "noble" for what he calls this "remarkable medium," and Lunaform's Borghese urn (seen in the sheds at right, $3,700) bears him out.

But Hewitt needed to know: "Can you be as ruthless as Churchill was?" Carson said that he preferred words like "tough" and "resolute," but he didn't dispute the premise of Hewitt's brutality litmus test.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet For those who prefer words, both the Times and the Post settled on the same adjective, "punchless," to describe the team's performance.

In some cases the Iberian Peninsula has adopted the Arabic word for such plants, while other languages prefer words of other origin—'rice' is arroz in Spanish and Portuguese, arròs in Catalan, but Italian and French prefer a Greek word (riso, riz), as do Vegliot (rize), Rhaetian (Friulian ris), and Romanian (orez).