Sentence examples for cheap substitute from inspiring English sources

"It's a cheap substitute".

In the 1930s, it was a cheap substitute for real apple pie.

The column of this design could be a cheap substitute for the conventional microcolumn.

In that way online networking becomes a cheap substitute to effective networking".

That complaint — that orders were a cheap substitute for legislation — leads to another irony.

In fact, some dairy producers and middlemen have admitted to using melamine as a cheap substitute for real milk powder.

AT one time, plastics were considered to be cheap substitutes for quality materials like wood or metal.

A conspicuous result is that indigenous farmers are driven to ruin when the local market is flooded with cheap substitutes for local produce.

The picture it always brings up in our mind is that of all the young men of tomorrow either busily inventing cheaper substitutes for th present cheap substitutes for cloth and wood and stone or else endlessly disigning new machines to provide their own children with technological unmeployment.

Cheap Substitutes Aren't Always Ugly One of the most striking features of Mr. Robohm's apartment is what appears to be a translucent glass window in the wall between bathroom and living room.

Little wonder, then, that the precious powder has spawned a trade rife with the kind of deceptions and distortions typical of traffic in gems or illicit drugs: cheap substitutes, diluted shipments, false labeling.