Sentence examples for rather than completing from inspiring English sources

Daria Tavana's play leaves a lot of the novel's threads (including pivotal ones) dangling, rather than completing the story lines, but the audience didn't seem to care.

There were students staring into space and doodling rather than completing their worksheet, which contained questions that the students, who were in special education, had difficulty understanding.

If there are not enough regular competitors, field fillers will take their place with some concern there will be "start and park" teams that show up with racecars just for the payout — parking quickly rather than completing races.

Nearly one-third (32%) believe they should stop taking antibiotics when they feel better, rather than completing the prescribed course, and over three-quarters (76%) think antibiotic resistance happens when the body becomes resistant.

United are not about to sell Rooney or relegate him to the bench but for a sustained period last season he was played in a far deeper-lying role than was usual, stationed on the half-way line at the behest of his manager and launching attacks rather than completing them.

Chernobyl was intended as a "reactor park," Josephson writes, with canals for cooling water that would create "a 'Venice' of nuclear power, where warm-water effluent in the canals attracts geese and ducks, who winter there rather than completing their southern migration".

The National Park Service will recommend paying a cash settlement rather than complete the so-called Road to Nowhere in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said.

Born into a large, comfortably off family in Eltham, south London, Jackson entered the film industry in his teens, rather than complete his formal education.

Silverman compares her path to womanhood to a Family Circus-style dotted line, "basically touching and interacting with everything in the neighbourhood rather than complete the simple task".

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In follow-up, questionnaires were mailed to participants rather than completed at in-home visits.