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
The atmospheric production is long on mood and mist and dark places; the monastery, which one would sooner call a castle, dominates the landscape like something from an old horror movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024
In his prime he would sooner jump in a lake than give you the slightest glimpse of what was going on inside his head.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2022
Yet, even after being expelled back into Mexico, he and other asylum seekers expressed enthusiasm that their conditions would, sooner or later, improve under the new administration.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2021
That is a lesson I would sooner they never learned.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
