Sentence examples for a stand-in for something from inspiring English sources

Is that flower a stand-in for something larger?

A gift card is, in effect, a stand-in for something desired, and its lack of utility underscores the suggestion that the holidays are simply a series of pure monetary transfers.

Protecting the docile cows that lumber through Indian traffic has, since the late 1900s, become a stand-in for something larger, says Neera Chandhoke, a columnist and retired professor of Indian politics.

A big step towards the modern use of soy as a stand-in for something else can be traced to the 1960s, when food scientists came up with a way to make soy protein with a spongy texture.

The fetish comes to be both a stand-in for something else (for instance the hair fetishist or tricophile might think of a person's hair as a stand-in for that person) and a thing in and of itself (they might experience sexual arousal from stroking the hair per se).

This is pointless, because the hate isn't even about you -- you're just being used as a stand-in for something or someone else.

In our post-religious age, contentlessness has become a cheap stand-in for something a bit religion-like.

His hospital bed is the play's only scenery, but the bed is empty: a stand-in for the man, and something for Si and his mother (Lisa Palfrey) to focus their anger on.

Pialat and Depardieu made four films together, and in the last — "Le Garçu," from 1995 — Depardieu played something of a stand-in for Pialat.

The park, as its name suggests, serves as something of a stand-in for the nation for Alfred, who hankers for the so-called "good old days".

Pialat and Depardieu made four films together, and in the last—"Le Garçu," from 1995 Depardieu played something of a stand-in for Pialat.