Sentence examples for instead of blazing from inspiring English sources

And during the Waterboys' performance, instead of blazing comets lighting up the evening sky, hot air balloons were cheered into the air behind the stage.

Instead of blazing down a trail at top speed, a muni rider often moves a few feet at a time, pedaling hard, rolling and hopping from rock to trail, finding the "line," or the ideal path down the trail.

Instead of blazing fluorescents, the lighting and timed window shades adjust to match the ambient light outside the building creating a comfortable, less stressful environment.

Baird looked impressive when he got on the ball and when he found space in the Hibs box and cut the ball back, attacking midfielder Stewart should at least have hit the target instead of blazing over the bar.

Such facts will enable a man to direct his business bullets at the remunerative bull's-eye, instead of blazing away blindly at the whole broad landscape with a charge of buckshot.

At the same time, these solutions are also available to all of your competitors, so deploying them can be more about keeping up with the times instead of blazing a new trail.

The Jets liked him, despite a lack of blazing speed.

He intensifies it with a surround of blazing red.

Fiery patchworks of blazing color.

Squint hard enough at the scene late last month and you could almost have imagined it was back in Ben Bedini's midcentury heyday: thousands in the stands instead of hundreds, a blazing afternoon sun in place of nighttime lighting, battle-chewed grass rather than emerald-green artificial turf.

Instead of arriving guns blazing like the British did in 1904, the Chinese soldiers took up residence in the ancient capital, Lhasa, and then simply refused to leave.