Sentence examples for instead of a person from inspiring English sources

Instead of a person, they got voice mail.

And here's the classic false-title problem that we want to avoid — this time applied to a thing instead of a person.

(Works created by a corporation, instead of a person, may be protected for as long as a hundred and twenty years).

But because the documentary showed me as some kind of super partier instead of a person, I became the poster child for share houses in the Hamptons".

If a computer instead of a person did the split, the other player was more likely to accept a low offer.

As Mr. Lane said, "Instead of a person buying a $2 plastic bottle of water, they can buy a reusable bottle for $7 or $5 and fill it over and over again".

And when, instead of a person-to-person handshake a phone call was placed from the Oval Office to a limo driving on its way to the airport, Americans were so excited.

It became clear that subjects felt more uncomfortable making decisions about who should die than about who should live; in one group of subjects, the majority refused to express any opinions at all about the relative wrongness of killing an older person instead of a younger person.

As if she was her wheelchair and could only see and serve the world as by the functionality of that wheelchair, instead of as a person.

They weren't meows exactly, but more like the grunts of a goddamn crazy person only instead of being a person it was a cat.

And instead of swindling a person, he tried to rob a country — of $27 million.