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Example sentences for "should rather"

  • I think I do feel a little tired, but it is nothing; only I should rather not go out this morning," said May, gently.

  • Epicurus offers himself to you, a man far from a bad, or, I should rather say, a very good man; he advises no more than he knows.

  • I do not even believe that this world was formed by divine wisdom; or, I should rather say, I do not know whether it was so formed or not.

  • The former has a porch, which is called "the Giant's porch:" it should rather be designated as that of the Dwarf.

  • ReƏchard estimates the number of these pictures at twelve hundred, but I should rather say seven hundred.

  • However, remark the stupidity of this fellow,--I should rather say, of this brute beast.

  • Did the applause at the games of Apollo, or, I should rather say, testimony and judgment there given by the Roman people, appear to you of small importance?

  • For a day, or I should rather say an hour, often brings great disasters, if no precautions are taken.

  • So far from looking for these things, he should rather be prepared for that obloquy which always awaits those, who, by opening up new veins of thought, disturb the prejudices of their contemporaries.

  • Now I want to know whether the same principles are observed in the laws of Lycurgus and Minos, or, as I should rather say, of Apollo and Zeus.

  • I should rather have an orange than apple.

  • In the former sentence, the noun strength should be in the objective case, governed by felt; and in the latter, it should rather be in the possessive, governed by declining.

  • Here style is understood after Plato's; wherefore was should rather be were, or else and should be changed to as well as.

  • It is generally spoken of in society and in the world as if it were a sort of Portsmouth--whereas, in reality, it should rather be compared with Cowes.

  • According to the Hebrew punctuation, we should rather translate: But Iahvah Elohim (the designation of God in the second account of creation, Gen.

  • Perhaps we should rather read, after the analogy of iii.

  • The conversation soon warmed into an energetic and vehement discussion, or philippic I should rather say.

  • I was fortunate enough at length to discover a vast hall, or shed I should rather say, which was used as a restaurant.

  • He was standing apart from the rest--leaning, I should rather say, for his body was not erect, but diagonal.

  • The bystanders answered that he should rather come to the bishop, and that the church was a more suitable place for establishing peace; for they foresaw guile.

  • But we must take account of the Danish--or as we should rather call it, the Norse--invasion of Ireland.

  • He was at any rate a staunch supporter, or, as we should rather say, the leader of the Reformation movement in its earliest course.

  • Perhaps we should rather think of them as resembling the Greeks found to-day dispersed over the nearer East with interests mainly commercial, easily assimilating themselves to their environment.

  • In addition to these the beginning of the ventral aorta is often thickened and expanded to form a bulbus arteriosus, which is non-contractile, and, strictly speaking, should rather be described with the arteries than with the heart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should rather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more precious; said nothing; should become; should choose; should desire; should endeavor; should exist; should fancy; should follow his steps; should haue; should look; should lose; should love; should much; should not have been; should please; should pray; should proceed; should return; should say; should seem; should sleep; should soon; should speak; should think you would; should vote