Sentence examples for we would sooner from inspiring English sources

"It took four days, and then we decided that we would sooner sacrifice all else than let culture perish".

What is more, it did so in the form of nice white curvy things that, compared with the grey/black boxy PCs, made the world seem a better place (if, by better, you mean a permanent episode of Black Mirror where we would sooner press handheld blocks of plastic than converse with our friends and family).

We would sooner head directly for England".

We would sooner spend our money on alcohol, caffeine, saccharine, and all manner of mass-produced, chemically processed foods than rethink our consumer habits and their devastating effects on every level of our existence.

We'd sooner pluck our eyes out.

I suspect we'd sooner face Honduras or Panama... .. Europe?

As for putting one of the damn things back on, we'd sooner hire a servo mechanic than try it ourself.

It was an ethereal tune, sung wholly without joy, a signal of desperate unity that seemed to imply we'd sooner drift to Nova Scotia than abandon our mission.

And so about 50 of us made up our minds that we'd sooner be shot than get back on that ship.

We know what it's like to tighten our belts, and we'd sooner put money back into the business and our employees than spend it on a fancy hotel.

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's The Welfare Show, at the Serpentine Gallery, plunges us into a world we'd sooner forget, a world of accumulated blank hours, of institutional anonymity, of boredom, trepidation, impotence and seething inner rage.