rathe's Usage Examples:

Spire is shortish, but rather tapering, and blunt at the point.

prone position, rather than upright, to reduce the frontal area exposed to headwind.

In formal Mandarin usage, the use of diminutives is relatively infrequent, as they tend to be considered to be rather colloquial than formal.

Within a month of the purchase of Shooter's Hill, the WMAA decided to build a park rather than a memorial.

This latter characteristic distinguishes them from most other families within Heteroptera, and may lead to misidentification as a beetle rather than a bug.

pace over the next two decades, playing matronly characters rather than temptresses.

Later gains the ability to inspire love rather than lust in both male and female onlookers, and holds fund raisers in order to help the Specials' cause.

cayanensis is still rather puzzling.

This is why aphids are typically found on the undersides of the leaves rather than on the top, since the phloem transports sugars.

international subscriber dialling (ISD) is placing an international telephone call that is dialed directly by a telephone subscriber, rather than by a.

novel from a joyous, spirited "waif-like" beauty into a plump, rather slatternly woman who is only interested in her husband and children has been criticized.

scientists deceive themselves junk science, speculative theorizing which bamboozles rather than enlightens pseudoscience proper, work falsely claiming to.

higher realms are not separated worlds in Islamic thought, rather they impinge the realms below.