Sentence examples for rather be gone from inspiring English sources

A Hank Williams Jr. 45, "I'd Rather Be Gone," was among the detritus along the road, as well as empty liquor bottles, a copy of "Tabernacle Hymns No. 3," soiled clothing and a dead puppy.

He'd rather be gone than with her, and so she told him not to come back, and that their relationship was over.

They were not all behind the lines, pretending they'd rather be "going over the top" than drinking Château Lafite and eating filet mignon with Béarnaise sauce.

"Everything about him and his entire history would suggest that he would much rather be going down the U.N., multilateral route," Cassidy says.

The Devils were encouraged by their 7-2 recordecord in these playoffs, but they would much rather be going to Texas with a two-games-to-none lead.

"I'd rather be going in with our team than theirs," Mr. Corzine's Republican counterpart, Senator George Allen of Virginia, said today.

It's also why I was excited that Clean Bandit's song Rather Be went to No 1 in the UK, trumping Pharrell Williams' infectious and ubiquitous anthem Happy in the process.

I'd rather be going home and staring at a wall for a little while and going to bed.

Is there some place you would rather be going?

That both Mr. Brokaw and Dan Rather are going into retirement in the aftermath of the election is a coincidence of timing but widely seen as a fateful one.

Rather, they are grateful to be gone.