How to use "preferable" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "preferable" in popular movie and book plots

  • Ondra is the goddess of forgetting: she believes that forgetting is preferable to living with the burden of remembering.  - Pillars of Eternity: The White March
  • and speaks with her son at their domicile that it's preferable he take another path than the path to be a dancer.  - A Dancer's Life
  • Raja feels that death would be preferable to vegetative life and kills Shekar.  - Manasukkul Mathappu
  • Eventually he gets captured and imprisoned, and finds life in prison preferable to a life on the run.  - Magic Seeds
  • Manise tells her that it is preferable to be honest and ask her husband directly but she refuses.  - Un couple épatant
  • The military commander agrees this might happen; but insists that is preferable to letting the Rodans escape.  - Rodan (film)
  • They decide that crying is the preferable method, but soon realize that Fry is too "macho" to cry properly.  - My Three Suns
  • The son learns about Islam and why his father thought it would be preferable to make the pilgrimage by car rather than by plane.  - Le Grand Voyage
  • Jenny insists that if Old Ben cannot stay with her, she will go with him; anything is preferable to the idea of Jenny becoming like her aunt.  - The Fugitive (The Twilight Zone)
  • dr Unnikrishnan feels that death would be preferable over a vegetative life and kills Vinod.  - Thalavattam
  • The next morning she commits suicide by quietly slipping into the sea; death is preferable to the agony of her unrequited love for Glaucus.  - The Last Days of Pompeii
  • The fictional lizard realizes that even being with his enemies, the other lizards who picked on him, was preferable to being alone.  - Last Life in the Universe
  • Nonetheless, the more powerful coalition sees this temporary solution as preferable to the impending collapse.  - The Mote in God's Eye

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