The phrase "alternate instead" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest choosing one option over another, but the combination of "alternate" and "instead" is redundant and confusing.
Example: "You can alternate between coffee and tea, but I prefer to drink tea instead."
Alternatives: "choose instead" or "switch to".
In several of the districts, he filed for two delegates and one alternate instead of the normal slate of three delegates.
Later, when a black juror was excused, Judge Trager skipped over a white alternate juror who should have been chosen to fill his spot and seated a black alternate instead.
However, Johnson missed the Pro Bowl, with most experts attributing the snub to the Lions' dismal winless season (he was named an alternate instead).
Southwest of Marysville, former U.S. 40 Alternate instead became State Route 113, and SR 70 ran south along former State Route 24 (Route 232) to a point north of Sacramento, where the new State Route 99 came in from the northwest and continued south.
If turning movements are necessary as for example when flying around an obstacle, a bird should develop a strategy where turning movements and straight flight alternate instead of being intermingled.
The potential advantages of using alternating instead of direct current prompted early experiments and applications of this system.
The question was put next to George Feinstein, the transit agency's project manager for the new trains, who said the explanation most likely was a mundane one, having to do with the advanced engines of the new trains, which use alternating instead of direct current, as older trains do.
"After the Snow" doesn't seem to truly be set in either the future or in some alternate past, instead residing almost entirely outside time.
TAR routes parts to alternate machines instead of their primary machines when the benefit in terms of waiting time obtained from routing to an alternate machine exceeds a pre-determined threshold value.
Motives of why people choose to use alternate transportation instead of an ambulance have been studied.
Whenever a path breaks, the algorithm should try to use an alternate path, instead of initiating a new route discovery.
