Sentence examples for secretly preferred from inspiring English sources

But experts say the former president secretly preferred Mr. Chen.

Still, I detect a faint whiff of Big Dog mischief, assuming it's true that the White House secretly preferred Halter.

But then the band released Love Me Do, which reached No 17 in 1962 (Kelly secretly preferred the B-side, PS I Love You).

Even in college and grad school, when circumstances more or less forced me to be a night owl -- even then I secretly preferred being awake and alert as the morning dawned.

A lot of the time people want to do confessional things on the show, like one guy who wanted to tell his wife that he secretly preferred having sex with men who were dressed like women.

(In our democracy, we think "the truth" Is what everyone, regardless, secretly prefers).

She is more emotionally intelligent and often secretly prefers her friends and her children to her husband, whom she nags.

But remember: they, that is us, may secretly prefer to be kept in the dark after all.

Policymakers might secretly prefer to do that through higher inflation, which lifts nominal incomes, than through the painful processes of cutting spending and retiring debt, or default.

A professional party girl from Ho Chi Minh City who has married a rich Texan secretly prefers the clean uniformity of a nearby housing development that her husband hates.

Describing a series of disastrous dates with a series of disastrous men, none of whom laid even a finger on her, she concluded that most English males suffer from "glaring sexual insecurity" and secretly prefer the company of other men.