Sentence examples for term better from inspiring English sources

When I think of Thomas, I think 'spouse.' I like that term better".

But in the longer term, Better Place's model may prove vulnerable.

In a term better understood by the founding fathers, this is the virtuous course, for intent is the crucial difference between pretense and determined behavior.

Now, I understand the term better in comparison with "plot-driven"; my editor was asking whether interior attributes or exterior structures — relationships, narrative conventions — control the action.

In the short term, this is probably the best way for governments to boost spending and jobs; in the longer term better roads and railways should boost productivity.

I think that term better applies to the N.R.A., though it's not the first word that springs to mind when I mull its current effort.

Other predictions it has made have been spot-on.Certainly, when news is so effervescent, there is appetite for the seemingly informed take: on Turkey (a "loser" in the Iraq war); Russia (winner); North Korea (short-term better, long-term worse).

Frankly, de Blasio's terms better describe who we are as a city.

If we want to say what we mean, what terms better describe Qaeda members and other violent extremists?

For higher education, there was a new commitment to protect research spending in real terms, better even than the cash protection in place since 2010.

From the U.S. perspective and the U.S. would be most likely the one to initiate it if I were to tax Chinese goods and put forth a tariff to make them less competitive in the U.S. marketplace, I think it's unlikely that U.S. manufacturers would be in a long-term better position, because invariably what would happen is Wal-Mart, instead of buying goods from China, would buy goods made in India.