Sentence examples for while I preferred from inspiring English sources

He wanted to have it in the pedestrian plaza at the end of our block, while I preferred a nearby nursery school.

When I was growing up, they generally kept to the more upscale part of the house, while I preferred the seedier rooms, where I could do whatever I wanted, knowing that several years might go by before my parents would think to look for me there.

We had lots in common: you liked your gill of ale, while I preferred my pint; we were both steam-train buffs, you having worked as a signalman while I had spent hours of my childhood taking down the names and numbers of locomotives from my vantage point in the park opposite my house.

While I preferred to meet potential dates in three-dimensional settings, I was uninterested in wandering Chicago's gay neighborhood alone.

While I preferred civil unions as a means of securing legal protections for gay and lesbian couples, I felt the proposed constitutional amendment went way too far and would be unnecessarily divisive.

The thing is, while I prefer the idea of natural skincare products, I suspect that this is as much about marketing as it is about evidence-based science.

My co-workers seem to think that we should be constantly exchanging "hilarious" banter, while I prefer to concentrate on getting the job done.

Within days, he issued a statement to People magazine that said in part, "While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me".

We are not always on the same page — Chef Joe is more sustainable and I am more local; he loves sardines from the Mediterranean while I prefer blowfish from Narragansett Bay — but the pages keep turning, and we keep reading.

The problem with incandescent or luminous books is that they veer toward the introspective, the arcane or the wise, while I prefer books that go off like a Roman candle.

Is this your Brazilian blood running through your fashion veins? A. While I prefer to keep the palette clean and generally neutral on the runway, I think the red carpet is the perfect place to infuse some color and add a little drama.