Sentence examples for good stands for from inspiring English sources

Lord Marshall said: "People at British Airways have embraced all that 'Change for Good' stands for.

In Bacall, who managed to make looking good stand for being good.

I used cayenne for heat and a chiffonade of romaine lettuce was a good stand-in for the bean sprouts, crunchy and fresh.

It would be a good stand-by for security in case mother died off.

Wouldn't these make perfectly good stand-ins for Lonesome George's tenuous lineage?

Paleoanthropologists often assume that chimp societies are a reasonably good stand-in for the ancestral ape society that gave rise to the chimp and human lineages.

Not that I did any conscious choosing, but I think she was a good choice, because her ignorance of comics and comics history makes her a good stand-in for the reader, while her obligation to pay attention makes her a good stand-in for the writer.

Screenwriters clearly found the feckless medical man a good stand-in for all the authority figures, from bank presidents to the President, who had lately let Americans down.

Reformsters propose that standardized test results are perfectly good stand-ins for educational quality.

There's also plenty of salt from the soy sauce, a good stand in for the tears you'll shed while watching George Clooney ugly-run in boat shoes.

These delicious fruits are good stand-ins for dessert and can help take the edge off a sugar craving.