Sentence examples for A poor substitute for from inspiring English sources

A poor substitute for a "real" present from someone else?

It was a poor substitute for a happy ending.

And a fantasy is a poor substitute for government.

The European Parliament is a poor substitute for national legislatures.

Demonizing Trump was a poor substitute for having any useful policy proposals in the 2016 presidential election, and it's a poor substitute for substantive foreign policy thinking today.

Vodka generally makes a poor substitute for gin in a martini or any other gin cocktail.

Critics delight in denigrating it as a poor substitute for invention.

The Lenin statues have been a poor substitute for understandable anger.

Saying that something is awful, she said, "is a poor substitute for an actual argument".

Obsession, Johnson implies, is a poor substitute for love, and scopophilia a thin alternative to sex.

In fact, they saw it as a poor substitute for reality; Hobbes called it "decayed sense".