Sentence examples for instead of an evening from inspiring English sources

He plans another televised discussion of the town budget, instead of an evening meeting.

More couples are reportedly having the reception at home rather than at a hotel, or are getting married on a Thursday instead of a Saturday, or at lunchtime instead of an evening – all ways to trim expenses.

By Thursday I almost felt as if I'd agreed to a suicide pact instead of an evening stroll around a lake.

Blake W. Nordstrom, president of the Seattle-based Nordstrom chain, said that during the downturn, core customers continued to shop, but they bought less -- a handbag instead of an evening dress, for example.

Now, if you were to take a morning flight instead of an evening flight to London from New York, you would want to expose yourself to light throughout the flight (no need for sunglasses), as well as when you land in London, soaking up as much sun as possible all day.

We happened to hit Tiradentes on the day of the state soccer finals, so instead of a late afternoon of museum and church stops, we opted instead for beer, along with a friendly, drunken, mostly female crew in a combination grocery-store-beer-joint called Bar do Bizuca.

But instead of a quiet early morning street, he saw hovering helicopters, detectives in rubber gloves, an army of reporters and the news that seven people had been shot in the refrigerator of the fast-food restaurant.

I decided to repeat the experiment at 11 at night, instead of a Sunday afternoon.

Maybe I made a mistake and took Soma last night instead of Sominex, and this morning I awoke in Aldous Huxley's dystopian "World State".

But instead of a Saturday night game, the network showed the animated movie "Up," which kicked off the CBC's holiday programming.

But he invited all parishioners, and asked that it be held on a Saturday, instead of a weekday afternoon, so more people could attend.