Sentence examples for feeble substitute from inspiring English sources

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… and invites Cousin Isobel to lunch: CI: I'm a feeble substitute for the entire Crawley family.

It earnestly takes on the dark side of prodigy: a nifty science project, the play makes clear, is a feeble substitute for real emotional courage.

Isobel: "I'm a feeble substitute for the entire Crawley family".

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Carnegie, alas, has a feeble electronic substitute.

The questions start simply enough, with a string of those feeble conversation substitutes that people resort to when they haven't got anything to say to each other.

On the cusp of a likely Tea Party-led government shutdown at midnight Monday, you appear as feeble as the helpless substitute teacher unable to control the rowdy, disruptive kids in the back off the class.

With him out it was just feeble thinking to assume that Michael Kasprowicz could substitute adequately.

The US international met Arnautovic's delivery with a feeble punch that fell to Joselu, and the Stoke substitute produced an emphatic finish from the angle.

"I discovered during the summer that I can jump a bandwagon as well as anyone, but now that the England cricket team has gone back to its feeble roots all my newfound knowledge of reverse swing and substitute fielders is useless so it's time to bone up on net-cords and bandanas.

UN diplomatic/peacekeeping military interjection, even if rather feeble, may be a relatively cost effective (in economic, political and real life currency) substitute for U.S. action.

Feeble stuff.

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