Sentence examples for but instead staying from inspiring English sources

It's feeling like going out with your girlfriends, but instead staying home to watch TV with your sig-O because you know he had a hard day.

However, about 90 per cent of the displaced are not in the camps but, instead, staying with host communities.

We should not leave now, but instead stay another night at Vyacheslav's dacha.

Henrik said he considered asking for time off, but instead stayed with the team.

Her travels took her to eastern Europe, Japan, and finally to Indonesia, where she had planned to stay three months but instead stayed for four years.

When Broad refused to "walk" but instead stayed in — in cricket, this is known as standing your ground — Twitter erupted with criticism, and so did the Australian team.

On opening day, she said she only wanted to stay long enough to watch her son throw out the first ball, but instead stayed for the whole game.

She considered telling someone at William Morris, or Cosby's wife, Camille, but instead stayed quiet, feeling her confidence and integrity compromised.

Here, the data are not released but instead stay within the premises and under the control of the operator (or an authorized entity) and are analysed remotely.

On Tuesday we even had a lecture by up and coming artist, Mari, who just graduated from Williams, and his manager J Harmony, a recent Columbia grad, about the struggles of being graduates from elite schools who could have gotten high-paying jobs, but instead stayed true to their passions in such a cut-throat industry.

This swing in the mood of British voters is echoed in the poll's finding that two-thirds of voters believe British and American troops should not pull out of Iraq now but instead stay until the situation is "more stable".