Sentence examples for but not instead from inspiring English sources

Alongside, but not instead of, jokes about toilet paper, because when it comes to making people laugh, we need a reasonable measure of both mental health and scatology.

It is possible (but theoretically superfluous) to postulate state- specific genes on top of, but not instead of, continuous somatic change.

But it did not, instead choosing to assume this risk.

We were supposed to see the judge but we did not: instead, we were taken to Adra prison.

But they did not, instead turning up a side road leading to a village near the border with South Ossetia.

But we're not, instead we haven't even finished checking out what's down there.

But why are we not instead talking about sustainability?

Most classical objects display this colour, but scattered objects do not; instead, they present a white or greyish appearance.

But not, like, instead of Kate.

Not instead of one.

But it didn't; instead, history beckoned.