Sentence examples for be a poor substitute from inspiring English sources

The demolition's opponents say any memorial would be a poor substitute.

But so far, they appear to be a poor substitute for good teachers in classrooms.

But she said that she felt it could be a poor substitute for face-to-face interaction.

The peril of Islamic totalitarianism has proven, in Europe at least, to be a poor substitute for the threat posed by nuclear-armed communism.

Reading a travelogue may be a poor substitute for travel, but Tesson's precise, meditative prose does a good job of slowing the pulse.

She calls for the fresh variety but, unable to track any down, I have to make do with the tinned sort, which experience suggests may well be a poor substitute.

But "a healthy well-fed robot is a poor substitute for a human being".His friend, the present Dalai Lama, led the mourning for his death.

But the web is a poor substitute.

It was a poor substitute for a happy ending.

Mr. Aidan's fruit bowl is a poor substitute.

And a fantasy is a poor substitute for government.