preferable

Example Sentences

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If you can swing it, check out local hotels for separate lodgings, which may be preferable to your overcrowded childhood home or sleeping on a couch in someone’s living room.

From Salon

Partial ownership is now preferable to no ownership at all, especially for a painting that instantly becomes the most important in the entire museum collection.

From Los Angeles Times

While real maple syrup does certainly contain quite a bit of sugar, it's still preferable in many ways to generic pancake syrup.

From Salon

Plymouth City Council argued the felling had to be done before the pre-election period, noting it was not a legal requirement, but a preferable one.

From BBC

My hope for women facing an unwanted pregnancy has always been that they would see other options as preferable to abortion.

From Washington Post