Sentence examples for rather than visit from inspiring English sources

Somewhere people pass through, rather than visit for its own sake.

Why attend a book fair rather than visit the library or the local book store?

Families will be more apt to "cocoon" at home, rather than visit friends or attend sporting and cultural events.

I asked him why his family had chosen to travel rather than visit relatives over the holiday.

But Aragon has become a part of Spain that people pass through rather than visit for its own sake.

Rather than visit a huge out-of-town supermarket once a week, many people are shopping more frequently at a smaller store in town.

He has asked fans to send him postcards rather than visiting the site, "as it may upset the staff who have been really pleasant".

In France, for instance, he chats with newspaper editors in Paris rather than visiting the depressing industrial zones in the north where many of the four million bitter and disenchanted Muslim immigrants from North Africa live segregated from French society.

Rather than visiting single mothers at home, and inspecting their chocolate collections, he should just have hot-footed it to Ed Balls, the fast-blinking education secretary, and demanded to know why cooking is not part of the core curriculum.

Asked about the methods Steele used to compile his reports, Simpson said that, rather than visiting Moscow himself, Steele relied on "a network of people, sources" that he had in Russia, which gathered information for him.

Are they able to avoid hospital admission where possible (and timely discharge where not); to have more treatment closer to home rather than visiting consultants in hospitals, and to postpone or avoid permanent residential care?