preferably
IPA: prˈɛfɝʌbɫi
adverb
- In preference; by choice; in a preferable manner.
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Examples of "preferably" in Sentences
- Preferably, the arms are extensible.
- Let warm water drip overnight, preferably from a faucet on an outside wall.
- I use the Greek word preferably, as perhaps it is more acceptable than its more vulgar English equivalent.
- After buying your fat, preferably from a farmer or butcher that treats its hogs humanely, chop it up into little pieces.
- Buy The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Francis Collins. (preferably from a local indy bookstore)
- We know what happened before (riots, protests, civil disobedience) we really don't want to go down that road again ... preferably ever.
- There should be only one penalty for unethical behavior of any kind by an elected official: public hanging, preferably from a lamppost outside the Capitol building.
- Jeff Mohamed believes that more than one billion people now use English (at least to some extent), and hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, want to learn English, preferably from a native speaker.
- I was having a conversation with smillaraaq in which we discussed the phenomenon by which many folks will proudly announce that they are the descendants of an Indian Princess, preferably from the Cherokee nation.