Sentence examples for familiar substitutes from inspiring English sources

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Legerdemain has a long history in English, but still seems more foreign than familiar substitutes like "sleight of hand" or "deceit".

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But he twisted the familiar formula – substituting the usual jingle concerning a yearning for sexual gratification with lyrics about a yearning for death, or the redemption he believed that it promised.

As gas prices rise in the United States – currently averaging around $3.70 per gallon – America's politicians have resorted to the same familiar tradition of substituting politics for sensible policy.

Wearing a professional, if somewhat dowdy, lemon-yellow suit, Saya subbed for fifth and sixth graders in Tokyo in 2009, where she displayed the six emotions with which she had been programmed and which are familiar to many substitute teachers: fear, disgust, anger, sadness, surprise and happiness.

Chemotherapy patients are therefore obliged to deploy a limited repertoire of familiar but hopelessly inadequate substitutes; words that can only approximate to the experience, but fail to convey anything of its true essence.

This is an eerily familiar argument: if you substitute the word "God" for "fiction," you realize why.

(To make them pretty, his team took a bit of artistic license, substituting the familiar colors for various frequencies of X-rays).

Some people have argued in specific cases that the person would have wanted to donate, thus using the idea of substituted judgement familiar in other cases of deciding for incompetent patients.

You can follow one of these traditional layouts, or you can vary the ratio and substitute more familiar ingredients.

For "legitimacy" substitute a more familiar word that carries the same meaning in this context, authority.

The second is Chinese celery, a leafier, skinnier-stalked version of the familiar green head; you can substitute regular celery here, without much difference.

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