Sentence examples for Instead from high-quality English sources.

• We turned instead our billy stick.

• It’s like watching a layup instead of a dunk.

• (Unless he thought he was going on TikTok instead of a major international simulcast.)

• Maximize the prime real estate of your subject line instead and introduce the big idea of your email story.

• Instead, the UK will presumably waste millions on a replacement scheme that won’t match Erasmus’s reputation or size.”

• Other major benefits include quarterly reporting of holdings instead of daily and greater tax efficiency than mutual funds.

• Asia will get 8 spots instead of 4.5; Africa 9 spots instead of 5; and Concacaf 6 spots instead of 3.5.

• Instead of people voicing their preferences by voting, they will instead choose between multiple market-based alternatives.

Use Instead in a sentence.

• For example, Archie would be more likely to call the front of a car the "hood" instead of the "bonnet" and say "sidewalk" instead of "pavement."

• Instead of the traditional path to investing that routes through investment banking, Nishar instead took what is now known as the "operator" route.

• For some time last night, instead of the graphics bar registering the steadily accumulating percentage of votes won by each of the candidates competing for the Democratic presidential nomination, there was instead a big fat zero by each smiling portrait.

• Working from home instead of in the office, taking classes online instead of in a classroom, and getting groceries delivered instead of heading to the store ourselves are just some of the changes people have been asked make over the past few weeks.

• Other books instead were instead heavily publicised that told the story of the coronavirus through the eyes of the state, with the overall aim to diminish the mark she made, and instead direct people's attention towards the Communist Party government's strength.

• I feared that Sarah was one of those women who, instead of laughing, said, “That’s funny,” or, instead of smiling, said, “That’s interesting,” or instead of saying, “You are a stupid blithering idiot,” said, “Well, I think it’s a little more complicated than that.”

• Instead of confronting Slipper; instead of appealing to the officers of parliament; instead of finding himself a lawyer; instead of going to the police with information about misused Cabcharges, Ashby brought his allegations to Slipper’s sworn political enemy.

• "We're encouraging people to get together to make things instead of buying them, repair stuff instead of throwing it away, and share experiences instead of hoarding more gadgets, toys and clothes that will soon turn to waste," says Greenpeace UK's head of climate, Rosie Rogers.

Instead sentence examples

• Everything about it—nocturnal violence instead of glittering, daylit contests of arms, stealth instead of open confrontation, animal pelts instead of gleaming bronze armor—inverts the norms of Homeric warfare, as if to suggest just how complete the Greeks’ reversal of fortune is: military, ethical, moral.

• Millennials (those born after 1981 and before 2002) are often associated with being the generation which prefers to binge-watch Netflix series instead of head to the cinema, text instead of call and use an app to date instead of meeting in a bar, but it is Linksters who may come unstuck when it comes to good old-fashioned face-to-face communication.

• What breaks my heart in Britain leaving the European project is the dark message that Brexit delivers to the entire planet: every nation for itself, instead of collaborating for the common good; everybody making its own rules, instead of searching for common ground; every group competing with the others, instead of solving the common problems together.

• The IPCC says we need to: buy less meat, milk, cheese and butter; eat more locally sourced seasonal food - and throw less of it away; drive electric cars but walk or cycle short distances; take trains and buses instead of planes; use videoconferencing instead of business travel; use a washing line instead of a tumble dryer; insulate homes; demand low carbon in every consumer product.