Sentence examples for bad substitute for from inspiring English sources

Instead President Andrew Jackson used the site for the patent office -- "not a bad substitute for a republic," the guide observes.

With one breath, Mr. Miller, 63, said of the Cyclones, "As a Dodger fan, I feel it's a bad substitute for a team.

There is polygamy, bisexuality (when one young woman rebuffs his advances, Genji consoles himself with her younger brother who turns out to be "no bad substitute for his ungracious sister") and something very close to incest.

That's Lez, not Led, though, making it not the legendary English rockers but the New York-based all-girl cover act — which, to be honest, is not a bad substitute for the real thing at all, as the following medley demonstrates in low fidelity: Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

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

Not a bad substitute, really.

Calculators are a bad substitute.

This is not a bad substitute.

Scare stories about the big, bad, evil Republicans was no substitute for a stout defense of Democratic accomplishments from health care to environmental, voting rights and labor protections, and an assault on income inequality.

If you've got a bad subcontractor, it won't substitute for going down there and getting into someone's face.

A collective sigh of relief that a bad episode is over is no substitute for analysis of what went wrong, and what the experience might mean for the future - in particular, what it might mean for Afghanistan, where Britain is busy repeating its mistakes.