would sooner
Example Sentences
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I’d wager a wolf would sooner recognize a sheep as one of its own than a grinning pug.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Mr Marshall, 48, does not want to know yet if he has Huntington's, saying: "I would sooner not know and not have a fear of what might be ahead if I do have it."
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
But Niinami said expectations were growing that the BOJ would sooner or later end its expansionist experiment.
From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2023
But she also said that she wouldn’t get weekly tests unless vaccinated workers also had to: She would sooner sell her house and move.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021
“If there must be a battle, I would sooner fight it from behind the walls of Meereen. Let the Yunkai’i try and storm my battlements.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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