Sentence examples for To stand in for from inspiring English sources

Billie Joe will be happy to stand in for the Gallagher brothers (who were themselves standing in for Lennon and McCartney) until further notice.

The commission, he said, "needs to stand in for passengers".

Little details have to stand in for much larger arrangements.

Wounded Knee has come to stand in for much of that history.

The other two were, the story went, to stand in for bits of debris.

The lemon will also work in the kitchen, to stand in for grated zest.

Cocky Ben Shepard is obviously meant to stand in for a generation.

The mother has to find a man to stand in for the father.

He ran out of his office and found a doorway to stand in for protection.

One person's peculiar cosmos would have to stand in for the world.

The town, an old slaving port, was meant to stand in for an Igbo village.