Sentence examples for a poor replacement from inspiring English sources

It's a poor replacement for the old Penn Station".

Bureaucrats would be a poor replacement for the magic of the creative world.

Collins was angered by a recent commentary from cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in the British Medical Journal which argued that pills were a poor replacement for better diet and more exercise – for lifestyle change, rather than tablets.

It's a poor replacement for the old Penn Station, and meanwhile, the Long Island Rail Road daily commuters, using the station five times a week, are going to see very little change".

Benson Stanley, who was otherwise a poor replacement for the injured Aurelien Rougerie, crossed the line after a period of pressure, but Owens referred the score upstairs because he suspected Farrell had been blocked off the ball by Damien Chouly.

Cleber, signed after Gabriel Heinze and Mikael Silvestre turned down Lyon last summer, has been a poor replacement at centre-back for the injured Cris, with his recent performances leading some fans to talk of re-signing Claudio Cacapa from Newcastle, which says it all.

The Kindle DX might be a good e-book, but the consensus among students at Princeton is that it is a very poor replacement for real books.

The Cavendish was a pretty poor replacement for the Gros Michel, but it worked.

When the major sources of food in the Gulf are threatened, the temporary jobs BP offered people cleaning up the spill look like a pretty poor replacement for plentiful shrimp and oysters.

A retrieval analysis of HA-coated cups has shown degradation of HA in all retrieved cups, and the authors concluded that " poor replacement of HA by bone may interfere with long-term fixation" (Rokkum et al. 2003).

We've seen thin-film speakers around, but generally they make for pretty poor replacements for regular speakers.