instead
IPA: ɪnstˈɛd
adverb
- In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.
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Examples of "instead" in Sentences
- The label instead signed the Tremeloes while the Beatles went to Parlophone.
- According to the article, the show's name instead is short for "Wow That's Funny!"
- If you're signed into a Google Account, the redesign now displays your name instead of your e-mail address at the top right.
- Ms. Anderson said Chinese customers will buy a bottle of French Bordeaux because it had "Bordeaux" on the label instead of a comparable Australian wine.
- Their study also found that most people typically read only the first five lines of a label, but did much better when the information was placed in the center of a label instead of the side.
- If we live out our faith and truly live by our word instead of arguing, fighting and killing each other in the name of religion, causing even greater devastation, then tragedies like this could be quickly resolved, perhaps even avoided.
- I’ll pipe in that sometimes when searching it’s less effective for results to use layman terms – instead of “high blood sugar” it’s easier to search for “hyperglycemia”….instead of “fat” use “lipids”…..instead of “high blood pressure” use “hypertension – since many of the journals are targeting medical and scientific readers used to the medicalese.
- Through my policy, which he arraigns, instead of the Thebans invading this country with Philip, as all expected, they joined our ranks and prevented him; instead of the war being in Attica, it took place seven hundred furlongs from the city on the confines of Botia; instead of corsair issuing from Euba to plunder us, Attica was in peace on the coast-side during the whole war; instead of Philip being master of the Hellespont by taking Byzantium, the Byzantines were our auxiliaries against him Does this computation of services, think you, resemble the casting of accounts?
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