Sentence examples for As a placeholder from inspiring English sources

As a placeholder, Iannucci included passages from "The Chairman Dances," by John Adams, as the incidental music.

As a placeholder, they erected a skate ramp that had belonged to a friend and was made, in part, from reclaimed barn siding.

He had used the vibrato as a placeholder.

"Useful" here serves as a placeholder for a different virtue, an aesthetic one.

Then I put "chocolate" in as a placeholder, and it stuck.

She displays it as a placeholder for the next trophy, because the coin is dated 1993.

The Intercept cited the "Mohammed Raghead" epithet as a placeholder for a target in a surveillance training document from 2005.

But sometimes it's been purely out of shock, a laugh as a placeholder for anxiety that feels inexpressible.

Now a weed whacker perched in the work as a "placeholder" for an object that had yet to present itself.

A blank page stood in as a placeholder for conclusions on aid for developing nations, the most controversial issue.

A federal official named Mollie Orshansky created it as a placeholder in 1963 until something more sophisticated came along.