Sentence examples for a bad substitute from inspiring English sources

Not a bad substitute, really.

Calculators are a bad substitute.

This is not a bad substitute.

Dry feta isn't a bad substitute, and pecorino Romano and Parmesan are fine as well.

Not quite as exciting, perhaps, as letting bombs off for real, but not a bad substitute.

The Charter Commission's referendum, already opposed by Common Cause/NY and other public advocates, is a bad substitute for the reforms now sitting on the Mayor's desk.

After his bandmates fire him, he becomes a really bad substitute teacher instead.

"E-mail is really good for certain things, but it's a really bad substitute for voice communication.

There is polygamy, bisexuality (when one young woman rebuffs his advances, Genji consoles himself with her younger brother who turns out to be "no bad substitute for his ungracious sister") and something very close to incest.

In addition to flat-out bad substitute teachers, good ones have been caught in situations where students' lives and safety were at risk.

But the original studies on Vietnam are a surprisingly not-bad substitute, definitely worth learning from.