Sentence examples for but instead of aiming from inspiring English sources

You use real clubs and balls, but instead of aiming for a real hole, you aim for a picture projected onto a screen.

But instead of aiming for a career in national politics, Mr. Shaw stayed local, and became an adviser to Robert C. Janiszewski, the former Hudson County executive later convicted of corruption.

The name suggested a parallel with alternative rock, then ascendant, but it also suggested a certain pessimism: instead of aiming at reforming mainstream comedy, these performers offered their audiences — and each other — a refuge from it.

But shall we therefore just forget about it instead of aiming to create it?

But now the kingdom has delayed the target for the solar ramp-up: instead of aiming to get one-third of their electricity from solar by 2032, they'll instead aim to hit that mark in 2040.

Instead of aiming toward defining moments, her interpretations are fluid, rhythmically driven, understated emotional journeys.

Instead of aiming for an exchange rate, their central banks have an inflation target.

"Instead of aiming with a dart, I'm firing a shotgun".

So instead of aiming at Barack Obama, US bands have increasingly looked inward or to new avenues for bilious inspiration.

Instead of aiming his pitches when he threw inside to left-handers, Reed said he "let 'er fly".

Instead of aiming for blockbuster public offerings or market-shaking acquisitions, most entrepreneurs now just want to endure.