Sentence examples for rather to put from inspiring English sources

"One thing I didn't want to do was to hang the frames at eye level, but rather to put them all over the wall.

Nor does the Palestinians' struggle for freedom and liberation imply the intent to annihilate the Jews, but rather to put an end to occupation, oppression and tyranny.

At the moment, Pallette's goal isn't to go to market, but rather to put the technology into the world so that the mobility impaired can access it as soon as possible.

Gina Carney, the founder of RGB, says that she's not trying to find today's hot hues, but rather to put out tiny seasonal collections of colors she thinks will be classics five years hence.

(He adds that his system, as distinct from "clinical" neurofeedback, aims not to change brain waves but rather to put the user in an "attentive state" that makes it easier to learn skills).

I'm not trying to be glib — well, maybe a little — but rather to put my finger on the merits and limitations of this ethically serious, aesthetically graceful and curiously bloodless movie.

Most, I have found, are rather easy to put down.

I am resigning rather than to put my family through that painful, drawn-out process".

Compounding financial woes, inflation in Venezuela is rather high, to put it mildly.

What we need, rather, is to put productive resources back in the hands of poor people.

Blair confesses that most political memoirs "are, I have found, rather easy to put down".