Sentence examples for I saw instead from inspiring English sources

What I saw instead was a skull.

What I saw instead was a cold, mocking expression.

What I saw instead was the hundreds of fans in the rows in front of me who constantly rose from their seats at the slightest incitement.

"That's who I saw instead of my friends," Ms. El-Azem, 29, a graduate student at Columbia University, recalled of her walk down the aisle on Sept. 25 to "Two of Us" by the Beatles.

Primed to expect ghastly "poverty porn", I saw instead a sad and touching documentary, which takes the time to offer a nuanced depiction of people usually talked of as troubling, unwelcome statistics, and only put under the microscope when some great tragedy occurs.

What I saw instead were cruddy strip malls, garish beach communities, and the ugly sprawl of car lots and franchise chicken joints and prefab warehouses, which issued out of the heart of every city and crawled along our highways like poisonous vines.

What I see, instead, is winner vs loser.

I see instead a prosperity that comes through freedom".

What I see instead is motor traffic snarled on avenues that, thanks to bike lanes, have been reduced from four lanes to three, or three to two.

"I will be able to hang out with Donald Rumsfeld for five days and write about what I see instead of what I think.

What would I see?" Instead, he toured the world interviewing Holocaust survivors for his film, pushing them hard to recall their experiences.