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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Keep in Mind: Spot cleaning is preferable, although it can be washed in cold water.
  — Terri Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Feb. 2023
• On this basis alone, both are vastly preferable to Trump.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• But, using the S24 Ultra while in the Apple ecosystem of devices is not preferable.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• The rationale behind the suits is that not being born is preferable to being born.
  — Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2023
• The larger display brings it more into the 16-inch device range for times when a 16-inch device would be preferable.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• This method may be preferable for those looking to take a precise amount of peppermint.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 19 Dec. 2022
• But that is preferable to the alternative, which is to deserve — and earn — your contempt.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Mar. 2024
• When asked why the light rail is preferable to driving, Daggett-Vonderas pointed to a friend’s can of Modelo.
  — The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2023
• Spot cleaning is preferable, although it can be washed in cold water.
  — Terri Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2022
• And some Utah fans are holding out that the Pac is preferable to those backwater schools in the Big 12, and that the devouring could and should feast at the other end of the table.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• Fabrics like cotton and linen are preferable to nylon, polyester or vinyl.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
• In some ways, having real, live enemies to shoot and punch to death would be preferable to coming to terms with the fact that there’s nobody to fight.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• Maybe staying and fighting would have been preferable after all.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024