Sentence examples for be instead from inspiring English sources

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be instead

adverb

In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.

  • I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.

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Wider economic circumstances may be instead.

You will be, instead, working out at a moderate intensity.

It was not to be; instead, the veteran Nationalist leader conceded defeat.

It may be instead that the particular type of expression associated with Michelangelo, of an almost cosmic grandeur, was inhibiting.

It can be, instead, a contest between two great athletes, with nothing, really, at stake besides winning or losing.

Our goal should be, instead, to give Americans the health care they need at a price the country can afford.

Maybe it is because most would prefer to "be all you can be" instead of being "an Army of one".

Since the message cannot now be "job done", it will be instead "we're on the right track, don't turn back".

Like him, they were people who couldn't just be instead of do, and consequently seldom left their ranch.

When the Cascadia earthquake begins, there will be, instead, a cacophony of barking dogs and a long, suspended, what-was-that moment before the surface waves arrive.

Game theory does not attempt to state what a player's goal should be; instead, it shows how a player can best achieve his goal, whatever that goal is.

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