Sentence examples for riding rather from inspiring English sources

When she announces she will pursue a career in riding, rather than something practical, like the law, her father curtly tells her to "grow up".

Those riding, rather than driving, would save not only gas and parking, but also perhaps the fixed cost of owning and insuring an additional automobile.

When Clark assumed office on Feb. 22, 1996, he broke with tradition by having the swearing-in ceremony in his home riding rather than at the legislature in Victoria.

The critic Frank Kermode, who wrote the original piece that sparked this kerfuffle, sides with the notion of riding an ass as an example of humility, and offers this parrying thrust at his medical rival: "There is no suggestion that riding rather than walking a shortish distance betokened the onset of the disease diagnosed by Dr James".

More problematically yet, it seems to be fundamentally missing the point to say that the crime of, for example, murder is, at bottom, free riding rather than unjustly killing another.

What they ended up with was an interpretation of Baby Wants to Ride rather than a straight cover version.

"This is nudging people to use the park and ride rather than risk getting a ticket," said Carter, who uses the train to get to County Hall.

We need to support people's decision to ride rather than simply looking out for people who choose to sit behind the wheel," she said.

The driver and passengers ride rather high in the LR4, which makes it feel, upon acceleration, as if one is in a small plane zooming close to the ground.

Greg Weeks, a product marketing manager for John Deere in Moline, Ill., said that a homeowner with more than a half-acre of lawn typically wants to ride rather than walk.

As a result, such structures tend to ride, rather than resist, the seismic waves during an earthquake like a well-reefed yacht in a storm.Ironically, for a country that sits on one of the most seismically active part of the earth's crust, Japan has traditionally built its houses to withstand not earthquakes but typhoons.