Sentence examples for rather fall off from inspiring English sources

I'd rather fall off a cliff than death from a thousand cuts.

And the obvious topic of conversation, if you were sitting over pasta with your husband, would be: Which fiscal cliff would you rather fall off first?

WASHINGTON ― If Tom Ward had to die from his work, he'd rather fall off a scaffold than endure the slow death his father did from the debilitating lung disease silicosis.

He's not quite sure which he'd rather see fall off first.

Rather than make Australians "fall off their chairs" in shock at the numbers, his transparent motives had them rolling their eyes, and the Intergenerational Report was forgotten within a week.

The seeds ripen at different times, and as they ripen, they "shatter" and fall off the plant rather than remaining attached.

"There were a few minor technical things that needed work on – straightening my run-up a little, making sure I follow through rather than falling off.

fter "Gunslinger" there's a precipitous, rather mysterious, falling off in the quality of Dorn's poetry, from roughly 1974 on.

Goldstein said the economy seemed to be "muddling along rather than falling off a cliff," and that he believed the Fed was unlikely to act unless evidence of a severe weakening in the US economy emerged.

"It's generally a confirmation that the weakness we saw in the May data was more in the way of a bump in the road rather than falling off into some abyss," said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International in New York.

This means that they taper down the leg, hugging your form rather than falling off of it because you needed more room in the caboose.