Preferable is an English word with synonyms like preferred or desirable. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Preferable in a sentence
Preferable meaning
Better than some other option; preferred.
Using Preferable
- The main meaning on this page is: Better than some other option; preferred.
- Useful related words include: preferred, desirable.
- In the example corpus, preferable often appears in combinations such as: preferable to, is preferable, be preferable.
Context around Preferable
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Preferable
- In this selection, "preferable" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, somehow, surely, infinitely, color, site and alternative stand out and add context to how "preferable" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an environmentally preferable alternative to and card is preferable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "preferable" sits close to words such as analytica, attic and bauer, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with preferable
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Walking at a comfortable speed is preferable. (7 words)
Wine is preferable to grape juice l’halacha. (8 words)
But that scenario was much preferable to the one Irvine dreaded. (11 words)
It wasn’t motivation Chelsea lacked against Real as much as “the final third stuff”, as Lampard described their lack of goals, of the cohesion of a team, of the quiet calm of Carlo Ancelotti, which is infinitely preferable to the noisy chaos of Boehly. (45 words)
The retailer said it assessed a number of alternative locations to open its new shop, including Alder Road, Ashley Road and Bournemouth Road, but the empty unit in Poole Retail Park is the "preferable site to accommodate the proposed development”. (40 words)
They say solar parks would be an industrial eyesore on pristine Swiss mountains and argue that outfitting more buildings and homes in towns and cities — closer to where the energy would be used — is preferable. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
But however severe the stresses and risks abroad, Nepali youths view those as preferable to dim prospects at home where corruption is so invasive.
Dodge can be a bit sensitive to movement through windows, so a home where he cannot easily view a road or busy path would be preferable.
Going faster isn’t preferable since going too fast can cause muscle injuries on dogs, mushers say.
If black is not your preferable color in a chipset, then the Maximus Z790 is probably not the motherboard for your build.
If you’re telling me the alternative to that, where it takes seven or eight years and you’re lost in the woods, I don’t understand why that is somehow preferable.
Insofar as this is the reality of the NHS, it is surely preferable for difficult decisions to be made on justifiable grounds.
In the post he shared, the comedian and wrote: ‘Five ways that Hitler was preferable to Trump.
In this post, we discussed which method of payment—cryptocurrency or credit card—is preferable.
It is selling out American values in order to cash in economically and strengthen military alliances that signal force is preferable to diplomacy.
It wasn’t motivation Chelsea lacked against Real as much as “the final third stuff”, as Lampard described their lack of goals, of the cohesion of a team, of the quiet calm of Carlo Ancelotti, which is infinitely preferable to the noisy chaos of Boehly.
One backbencher said the party is pragmatic about the possibility, but that it would be preferable for most in the party if the existing coalition with Fine Gael and the Greens was renewed.
Raising the value of would have been preferable to sending lump sum payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boost an “ineffective sticking plaster”.
The retailer said it assessed a number of alternative locations to open its new shop, including Alder Road, Ashley Road and Bournemouth Road, but the empty unit in Poole Retail Park is the "preferable site to accommodate the proposed development”.
The soil you’ll use is made up of coir, or coconut fiber, an environmentally preferable alternative to peat; lava rock (which I learned in has minerals that plants love); and horticultural charcoal.
They say solar parks would be an industrial eyesore on pristine Swiss mountains and argue that outfitting more buildings and homes in towns and cities — closer to where the energy would be used — is preferable.
Walking at a comfortable speed is preferable.
We are not naive enough to believe full transparency is possible or even preferable in the workings of Harrisburg.
We are on bullying terrain and Wong is trying to pick the most preferable bully.
Wine is preferable to grape juice l’halacha.
But that scenario was much preferable to the one Irvine dreaded.
Common combinations with preferable
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- preferable to 84×
- is preferable 51×
- be preferable 27×
- preferable for 23×
- are preferable 14×
- was preferable 13×
- as preferable 9×
- the preferable 9×
- more preferable 8×
- and preferable 7×