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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And one that thickens beneath the heel is preferable to one that's totally flat.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
• Yes, but uncertainty for the time being may be preferable to a loss right away.
  — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Even the neighbors who came to the island to escape the war have decided the prospect of missiles is preferable to endless floods.
  — Lori Hinnant and Vasilisa Stepanenko, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• For the best chance of keeping Earth livable, scientists need to understand exactly how the microscopic creatures around us might be useful, and perhaps even preferable to the more sci-fi approaches to cooling off the world.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
• Shelby then refuses to leave Nikki’s body, finding Nikki’s life as a traditionally attractive social media influencer preferable to her own.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024