Sentence examples for rather, as from inspiring English sources

-- not "as compared to", but rather "as well as"?

I would describe it rather as detached.

Rather, as ever, the women question themselves.

Or rather, as it turned out, hibernated.

It seemed rather as if he hadn't.

This is rather as you'd expect things to be.

Or rather, as it turned out, we made two.

but is intended rather as setting an example.

Rather, as Mark Twain put it, it sometimes rhymes.

It is rather as if they are hoarding their secrets.

Rather, as a classics scholar, he uses an aesthetic standard.