Sentence examples for a useful substitute from inspiring English sources

Are they a useful substitute for hearing aids?

But Miss McRobbie's book would be a useful substitute.

"I don't think they have anything that would be a useful substitute for leather".

However, Smith also said that new high-speed services, cited as one reason for closures, were not always a useful substitute for night trains: "Paris-Madrid still takes eight hours, so it makes sense to do it overnight – but you can't".

Gale sounds like the sort of captain best suited to leading a winning team of supposed "underdogs", as indeed he did for much of last season; Sayers a useful substitute to have around when Gale's rallying cry of "The Tykes are reborn" has been exposed, confidence is low and there is a need to think a lot and tread carefully.

ICDPIC-R may be a useful substitute when this ideal cannot be obtained.

If Hughes does not trust Taarabt with a regular role, he may have a useful impact substitute but risks having an unhappy player at the club for the rest of the season.

OCP/Col should be a useful bone substitute with active structural reconstitution.

Therefore, the A-CP-F composite could serve as a useful bone substitute for repairing bone defects.

Failure to achieve success rested with the lack of scientific knowledge about blood; furthermore, the technology needed to create a useful blood substitute solution was lacking.

Fresh milk and cream have always been preferred by American consumers, she said, with the shelf-stable products seen as inferior, if useful, substitutes.