How to use "rather" in a sentence

I'm afraid I'm rather worried about him

If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish

'I'd rather you killed me.'

It is a comforting but also rather depressing thought.

I'd rather be free than in a pod."

Everyone looked rather shocked, and uncomfortable.

By the way, dear, you were rather rude to him

She may be rather strange at first, but don't worry about that

'I would rather leave it to you, Mrs Danvers,' I said

'Mr de Winter said you would rather be on this side of the house

It's rather cold in there.'

'It was rather a shock to us too,' Beatrice said

She stopped, her face rather red

I felt happy again and also rather hungry

'I beg your pardon,' the man said, looking down at me with a rather unpleasant smile

'But I'd rather you didn't tell Max about my visit

'I think I rather like the idea,' I said with a smile.

That makes things rather difficult for us now.'

'I'd much rather stay,' I said

'Frank told me something rather strange on the phone

He had thick dark hair like Danny's, a nose that resembled Danny's, and a rather delicate jawline like Danny's too.

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

At night, the view of Las Vegas from the mountainside was undeniably spectacular, but Elliot couldn't understand what other reasons anyone could possibly have for choosing to live here rather than in the city's older, greener neighborhoods

I'd rather be a comfortable, upstanding, boring citizen than a fugitive."

Why did Christina Evans ask you, rather than another attorney, to handle the exhumation of her son's body?

Her heartbeat became less like the pounding of a jackhammer, but it still did not settle into a normal rhythm; now it was affected by excitement rather than terror

I suppose it's natural for him to reach out to me rather than to his father."

He was a handsome, easygoing guy who ambled rather than walked

As he gazed at the model, he wasn't transported back in time or lost in fantasies of high-seas adventure; rather, he was mulling over the recent developments in the Evans case

Unable to prove his identity, he was required to pay for both nights in advance, which he did, taking the money from a wad of cash he'd stuck in his pocket rather than from the wallet that supposedly had been stolen.

"If we have a choice," Tina said, "I'd rather use rope than bullets."

Since I must leave you, I would rather you remembered me as I was before

'I rather like Miss Marple,' I said

'There's one rather strange thing,' I said

His cheerfulness rather upset me, but death means very little to a boy of sixteen.

When I had finished she said, 'I know that I am very often rather stupid, but I really do not understand your point

I was rather worried about meeting Lawrence in the garden while my husband was inside the vicarage.

We were all rather excited.

'It's rather strange

In fact, I felt rather happy at the thought of no more burnt vegetables and tough meat.

'It is a rather rude question I know, but I am concerned.'

I had known him rather well

I rather enjoy it

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

'My love to dear Griselda - and tell her - that any little secret is safe with me.' Really, Miss Marple is rather sweet...

She had never been out of England before; she would rather die than be friendless in a foreign country

Unfortunately, our only child took after his people rather than mine

I now feel rather well, except for my liver problem

First I noticed that she was dark, then that she was young, and finally (to my great surprise) that she was rather ugly! She had a large, strong masculine jaw

Anne was in the room, and he told her to leave rather rudely

In it, she said, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." With this famous sentence, Simone was the first thinker to write about sex and gender