Sentence examples for been substituting from inspiring English sources
verb
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
In place of cream, I've been substituting evaporated skim milk.
An earlier version said in the text and subheading that been "substituting vinegar for" non-brewed condiment.
Mr. Cuomo had recently been substituting for Mr. Cooper at 9 p.m., drawing a similar audience of around a million viewers nightly.
Nowadays strips of composite materials have been substituting these last ones, but even if the column is surely strengthened, the aesthetic result can be unsatisfactory.
So to some extent Americans have been substituting lower wages for lost jobs – either by accepting lower wages at their current place of employment, or getting the boot and settling for lower wages elsewhere.
Coal exports have increased rapidly in recent years for several reasons, including high demand in China and Europe and a glut of cheap natural gas from domestic shale, which utilities have been substituting for coal.
Evans had earlier been substituted.
Dvorak said Lloris "should have been substituted.
The substitute has been substituted, Mulenga off for Felix Katongo.
The medals have been substituted.
Electronic messages are substituting for "snail mail".
