Use the word rather in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use rather in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for rather.
- It was rather thick. (9)
- I was feeling rather low. (8)
- One rather likes his wife. (10)
- I rather regret your going. (10)
- I would rather not sit down. (10)
- Hilary stopped rather abruptly. (8)
- I shall sit rather late to-day. (8)
- He rather derived spirits from it. (4)
- I could rather enjoy the adventure. (10)
- The wish was rather eager than lasting. (4)
- Or rather we have to wish it were a blank. (10)
- She passed him rather obviously and often. (10)
- Why, two men rather hang their heads a bit. (22)
- Derek turned a rather startled look on Felix. (8)
- For herself, she would rather go on as she was. (8)
- I would rather work for my bread than marry him. (4)
- Perhaps he would rather have married the mother. (10)
- She had passed a rather restless night, she said. (10)
- I would rather see you dead than alive in his hands. (10)
- But I should rather not experiment at my time of life. (9)
- Lavender was silent, gazing up with rather startled eyes. (8)
- Just two, and they were rather indifferent than unfriendly. (9)
- Choosing rather to be struck first, he vented nasty remarks. (10)
- Even her little vanities are rather pleasant than otherwise. (14)
- Lady Valleys, rather flushed, bent forward and kissed his ear. (8)
- He was no longer angry, but felt that he would rather die than yield. (8)
- I think, I hope, I am sure she is not serious; but I would rather not hear it. (4)
- There was truth in my joking, but the truth did not save me; it lost me rather. (9)
- No, it was not exactly resignation, it was rather sheer lack of commercial instinct. (8)
- Ripton rather forgot his friend for some minutes: Random thoughts laid hold of him. (10)
- This short and rather blunt exercise in Fine Shades was read impatiently by Wilfrid. (10)
- She was inclined, it is true, to regard the house rather as an asylum for her proteges! (8)
- Your brother and I are rather old acquaintances, though I never knew who he was before. (9)
- Frances Freeland looked at it, then, mounting rather hastily, sat, compressing her lips. (8)
- And in return had written him long, perfectly correct epistles in her still rather quaint English. (8)
- The man put down his paper and looked at me; he had a big fair moustache and rather shabby clothes. (8)
- It was rather worse than the anticipated struggle with this Charlotte, though he had kept his temper. (10)
- He laughed rather consciously; and though denying the sentiment, Emma was convinced that it had been so. (4)
- March met Fulkerson on the steps of the office next morning, when he arrived rather later than his wont. (9)
- I know a few rather authoritative persons who sincerely assign to you quite a high position among mortals. (12)
- I am a talker, you know; I am rather a talker; and now and then I have let a thing escape me which I should not. (4)
- I am sure I would rather be a barge than occupy any position under heaven that required attendance at an office. (2)
- At the terminus his services were refused, and rather crestfallen, with his hat raised, he watched her walk away. (8)
- He introduced the use of large double choruses which caused him to write harmonically rather than polyphonically. (3)
- His note was heard rather amid the sweet security of streets, but it was always for a finer and gentler civility. (9)
- There was no lover: some love there was: or, rather, there was a preparation of the chamber, with no lamp yet lighted. (10)
- She was rather paler than usual, but it became her, and Captain Maydew thought he had never seen so charming a creature. (8)
- Once, I felt the fire rather too much; but then I moved back my chair a little, a very little, and it did not disturb me. (4)
- Two lean fellows, rather alike, with lined faces and bitten, drooped moustaches, were the next to come through the yard gate. (8)
- Like most artists, and few Englishmen, he lived on feelings rather than on facts; so, found no refuge in decisive resolutions. (8)
- That is forever insoluble, and it was rather with that than with his more or less shadowy people that the romancer was concerned. (9)
- He wished her to let them feel that they were favoring rather than favored, and she insisted that it should be quite the other way. (9)
- Tom Bakewell also received his priming, and, to judge by his chuckles and grins, rather appeared to enjoy the work cut out for him. (10)
- The dinners at Beckley Court had hitherto been rather languid to those who were not intriguing or mixing young love with the repast. (10)
- The style remains his own and is essentially Italian in character—that is, it is based upon vocal rather than instrumental capabilities. (3)
- Nor did she raise her veil, which extended rather tautly from her wide-brimmed hat to her chin and accentuated the whiteness of her skin. (12)
- He remembered all the triviality of his behavior with Ellen at first, and rather sickened at the thought of some of his early pleasantries. (9)
- Mrs. Weston and Emma tried earnestly to cheer him and turn his attention from his son-in-law, who was pursuing his triumph rather unfeelingly. (4)
- Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, from having been longer than usual absent from Surry, were exciting of course rather more than the usual interest. (4)
- This was a square woman of medium height, with grey hair brushed from her low forehead, the expression of whose face was brisk and rather cross. (8)
- Rather it helped him and supplied that consciousness of dignity which might have forsaken him had he regarded himself merely as a business agent. (14)
- I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty. (4)
- The morning was rather favourable, though it had rained all night, as the clouds were then dispersing across the sky, and the sun frequently appeared. (4)
- Thomas Hood was rather more deserving of a lasting place in literature than his victim, because of his sense of humor, and his well-known rapid-fire satire. (16)
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Definition of rather:
- rather, räth’r, adv. more willingly: in preference: especially: more so than otherwise: on the contrary: somewhat, in some degree: more properly: (_coll._) considerably, very much. | adj. rath’erish, to a slight degree, somewhat. | rather better than, somewhat in excess of. | the rather, by so much the more. (0)
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