Sentence examples for delivered instead from inspiring English sources

Purification tablets were delivered instead because it was considered cheaper and simpler, he said.

What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled "Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966".

She found that, although the hospital's governors paid for whole milk for the foundlings, skimmed milk was delivered instead.

What it's delivered, instead, is the tawdry, dismaying, and wildly entertaining spectacle that ensues when the national-security establishment inadvertently turns that surveillance apparatus on itself.

The volunteers stopped exercising and, at every opportunity, took the _________, not the stairs, or had lunch delivered, instead of strolling to a cafe.

Mr. Stannard has delivered instead an ordinary lumpy mattress of a biography, with coils and feathers poking out the sides and a few bedbugs leaping to the floor.

"We just tell them that we can deliver instead if that's their preference".

The basket of pretzels, however, is "for children," one waiter said, delivering instead an obscenely sized "Uber Soft" variety.

What Mr. Bernanke's speech delivers, instead, is a brief and engaging sketch of the debate about the state of innovation.

At times his reliable sense of occasions fit for minor-key mourning falters, and he delivers instead a slightly sticky anecdote.

The title "Autobiography of a Chicano Teen Poet" (1987) may promise the literal record of a life, but delivers, instead, such lines as these: "My brother died in the ring, / stabbed 14 times by the King of Desire.