Sentence examples for as a cheap substitute from inspiring English sources

In fact, some dairy producers and middlemen have admitted to using melamine as a cheap substitute for real milk powder.

He consistently challenged such concepts as pre-emptive strikes, winnable limited nuclear exchanges and the reliance on tactical nuclear weapons as a cheap substitute for conventional defence.

Over the years, counterfeiters have used diethylene glycol as a cheap substitute for its more expensive chemical cousin, glycerin, a common ingredient in medicine, food and household products.

Wine has suffered from an elitist image in some quarters and been excoriated as a cheap substitute for hard liquor in others.

The fluid, which normally contains 93% ethanol, as well as hawthorn extract and lemon oil, is widely drunk in Russia as a cheap substitute for alcohol.

This result would allow us to use the total number of airfoils as a cheap substitute of the turbine efficiency for a coarse optimization at the first design steps.

The new services will use devices known as SNP chips, which offer a cheap substitute for decoding the three billion units of the human genome, a task that would probably cost $1 million or so per person at present.

Before buying a new and expensive kind of equipment, try out a cheap substitute (such as an old 20mm or 24mm lens on a film camera before buying a modern ultra-wide zoom lens) to see if it does basically what you had in mind but not quite as well as you would like, or rent one for an occasion it can be tried out heavily (but make sure you're protected against or can afford damage or loss).

They turned to flush doors as a cheaper substitute for paneled doors.

Using expanded cork dust as a cheaper substitute of fumed silica, the expanded cork/fumed silica composites with hierarchical porous structure were designed and constructed as an alternative lower cost material for vacuum insulation panel (VIP) core.

SNOW CRAB -- Often sold as a cheaper substitute for king crab, the crab varieties called snow crab (especially opilio, bairdi and tannery) are smaller, averaging two to five pounds, reddish, with long, thin legs, and moist, slightly fibrous white meat.