Sentence examples for bad substitute from inspiring English sources

Not a bad substitute, really.

Calculators are a bad substitute.

This is not a bad substitute.

Dry feta isn't a bad substitute, and pecorino Romano and Parmesan are fine as well.

Not quite as exciting, perhaps, as letting bombs off for real, but not a bad substitute.

After his bandmates fire him, he becomes a really bad substitute teacher instead.

But the original studies on Vietnam are a surprisingly not-bad substitute, definitely worth learning from.

Random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution is a novel stochastic method with strong global search ability for heat exchanger network synthesis; however, its mutation behavior of accepting bad solutions might substitute excellent solutions with bad ones and consequently cost-optimal structures cannot be guaranteed.

Cookies may become extremely bad if you substitute an ingredient for another food item that wasn't instructed; for example, replacing sugar with salt.

Perhaps no word appears in the book as often as "bourgeois," and Barthes's message throughout would be clearer if for every occurrence of the word "bourgeois," a reader substituted "bad" and, for "petit bourgeois," "very bad".

And given my level of mental fatigue, I did!" Which is one reason telling yourself to put in more effort won't defeat procrastination: that hectoring inner voice thinks it's fighting laziness when in fact it's getting in the way, substituting bad feeling for useful endeavour – against which, to make things worse, our hedonistic sides rebel.