Sentence examples for was rather than from inspiring English sources
Why do we insist on living in a world that was rather than is?
They really encouraged me to figure out who I was rather than who I was becoming.
And that it sadly was, rather than for the elusive "Olympic spirit".
Several soldiers said they preferred to be here, where the action was, rather than in a cushier, duller post.
So much better to see it as it was rather than gaze at a heap of preserved rubble.
I could always ask them what bird it was rather than look it up in the guide.
"What the report accused Binghamton University of was, rather than taking corrective action, trying to cover their tracks.
Our tasks were rather perceptual than cognitive.
Data from such a trial can thus at best support exploratory analysis and yield conclusions of the form: 'the model found to be the best fit to the data in this case was…' rather than being confirmatory.
She is only four years older than Bouchard, but in this sport that made her a once-was, rather than a more marketable new-and-shiny.
