How to Use preferable in a Sentence

preferable

adjective

• The geese, Juarez said, are far preferable to the fence.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• On the other hand, this is preferable to adding to the debt.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• There is a view among those close to All3Media that this is the preferable outcome.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• Therefore, the terms of the new loan should be preferable to those of the previous.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• But that’s far preferable to the rest of the film, which is mind-numbingly dull.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• For Larkin, kayaking on the canal is preferable to traversing lakes and rivers.
  — Robin Catalano, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
• In a preferable lefty-lefty matchup, Harper came through.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
• But there are times when a silent arena is preferable, too.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• This isn’t to say that swarming is preferable to a tiered approach.
  — Jonathan Rende, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• There’s no question about which kind of love is preferable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• But the Fed is wagering that the pain of a recession is preferable, in the long term, to the pain of runaway prices.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• The broader aim is not to get people to agree that one set of policies is preferable.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The body of the tape measure is comfortable to grip and handle, and the wide case might be preferable for users with large hands.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
• The captain drove the ship onto the sand, beaching preferable to sinking.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021
• Either was still preferable to a tarp, stretched over a bus shelter or held up by poles.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The truth is that any kind of writing is hard—something is so rarely preferable to nothing.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• The first form is preferable because the team can spread the $58.3 million bonus over five years for salary-cap purposes.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Even so, there may be times when using a debit card is preferable.
  — Melanie Lockert, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• The central question, then, is which of two options is preferable.
  — Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
• From their perspective, such a system is far preferable to one in which the will of the people prevails.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• An option to speak with someone in private and away from the action is much preferable.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 May 2022
• River sand is preferable to coastal sand, partly because coastal sand has to be washed free of salt.
  — David A. Taylor, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• The house seems preferable to Braxton, who appears to be tired of living apart from his sweetheart.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Preparing for the worst is preferable to being forced to do so later on Putin's terms.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• So, which of the options are preferable from the viewpoint of moral philosophy?
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• The first half of Sunday will feature the more preferable conditions, with clouds and showers moving in by the evening.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
• Given the choice between lots of crude and lots of refineries, the latter is preferable.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Now the big question: In the past, has sleeping in or getting up on time produced more preferable results for me?
  — Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• Rather, the novel treats these things as bad but normal and manageable—and preferable to a total loss of connection.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
• The first is the front light, which is functional and definitely preferable to not having a light but which gets nowhere near as bright as the Kindle's and doesn't have any kind of adjustable color temperature feature.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024