Sentence examples for instead of a plate from inspiring English sources

Without it, they would go to bed with a glass of water instead of a plate of millet or sorghum.

Instead of a plate, the stews are served on a large, pancake-like bread called injera, which is set on top of a colorful woven basket-table.

Starting on July 14 , 2010 Chrysler said, it began using a "skid bar" instead of a plate on vehicles with automatic transmissions as a weight-saving measure.

You could tell it was fashion week because at 8 o'clock, when the assembled guests eventually located their place cards and sat down - as we thought, to dinner - instead of a plate, there was what looked like an embroidered shoe-bag (containing, in fact, a hair towel) at each place setting.

Instead of a plate dotted with wells, they made a plate with a grid of tiny pillars, each about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen.

Imagine not being able to clap your hands at a concert, not being able to laugh at a joke, and having your meals served through a feeding tube instead of a plate.

So give these flavourful little fish a break, be adventurous, and reach instead for a plate of erizo de mar - literally, hedgehogs of the sea.

At 12 Chairs Cafe in New York, instead of offering a plate of traditional latkes, the restaurant staffed by Israeli-born chefs has decided to serve an extra-large version to satisfy a table of hungry guests.

In the case of food, using a salad plate instead of a dinner plate might be all the diet you need.

In this study, an attempt was made to observe the effect of a channeled coolant plate instead of a flat plate for distillation of saline water.

The relative increase in the gas hold-ups is smaller in water and also if a porous plate instead of a perforated plate is used as gas distributor.