preferable

Living with bats is far preferable to living without them, Plowright says.

Surely it would be preferable to place Issy in foster care than attempt to kill her.

He clearly felt that this was preferable to any more combat.

It is surely preferable to blood-letting in the guise of ideologically-guided nation-building.

There is a danger, Jones suggests, in assuming that the known world is preferable to any alternative.

The specific gravity is most conveniently estimated by means of the urinometer—Squibb's is preferable (Fig. 14).

With nervous children the lobe of the ear is preferable, as it prevents their seeing what is being done.

Her own wild imaginings made death seem preferable to the anguish of her belief that Frank had fallen.

A crust of bread and clear air are far preferable to luxuries enveloped in clouds of smoke and heaps of filth.

If a full-flavored cigar is desired, choose the dark colors, and the lighter if a mild cigar is preferable.