Sentence examples for instead of arriving from inspiring English sources

Instead of arriving all puffed up and victorious, he disguises himself as a beggar.

So instead of arriving in early May, as was their custom, they arrive in late May and lay their eggs.

Instead of arriving in Springfield as the consensus candidate of his district, Obama was regarded as a troublemaker.

Instead of arriving at the plane's destination in Beijing, the Boeing 777 — and the 239 people on board — disappeared.

Some will have to make their way to a will call booth to pick up their tickets instead of arriving with them in hand.

Instead of arriving cloaked in a schoolmarm's petticoats, it comes now bristling with righteous, if polite, indignation over society's continuing plunge into a digital abyss.

The film never states the Wal-Mart store has opened, using the words "descends" instead of "arrived" and punctuating the sequence with the dramatic use of a bulldozer all meant to reinforce that the Wal-Mart store has just broken ground.

Air traffic controllers were forced back to work in a kind of reverse A-Team: instead of BA Baracus arriving in an armoured personnel vehicle, armoured personnel vehicles arrived in Barajas.

Instead, they see today a scared, hardened nation awash in hatreds, with space for dissent shrinking and many people, especially among younger generations, fleeing instead of arriving--in direct contradiction to the spirit of Zionism.

Imagine ordering a pizza or toothpaste, and instead of it arriving in under an hour via moped or sedan (the pizza), or two days later via courier, they arrive in under 15 minutes, from the sky.? How long until that happens?

Instead of, say, arriving at a guesthouse and swapping stories after supper, as they might in Chekhov, these characters seem exhausted by stories, often telling them with a strange reluctance.