Sentence examples for instead of dates from inspiring English sources

Instead of dates being spread over a couple of thousand years, the new ones clustered tightly round an age of 14,700 years before present – the exact moment that the world had begun its dramatic defrosting.

Finish off with the malva pudding, similar to sticky toffee pudding, but with apricot jam instead of dates.

Also, admission and discharge dates are collected, instead of dates of intervention.

"Instead of date night with a spotlight she got a biggo ticket," added another commenter.

"If I had spent my time investing instead of dating," he said with a sigh, "I'd be in a much better place in my life right now".

Instead of dating Jenna from the get-go, Ryan now admires her from across the fence, a chaste and emasculating rejiggering of the story.

Instead of dating, she should have waited to have an arranged marriage". Julian Baughan QC, prosecuting, said: "Their relationship brought shame and dishonour on the family.

In some cases, instead of dating, the format is tamer, with participants scouting out new drummers for their bands, for instance.

"The Ex-Girlfriend" Marlene is dating a guy named George Costanza because she's at that point in her life where she's like, "Maybe instead of dating a series of hot assholes, I will date one man who is kind to me".

This process gets a little murky as she gives up on one kind of power and embraces another kind; instead of dating a man who wants her to quit her job, she dates one who can help her get her big break.

So instead of dating Beaux (who realized she was gay a few months earlier when she saw an incredibly beautiful woman in blue corduroys playing trumpet at her grandparents' 60th-anniversary party), at the beginning of 10th grade, Hanna started dating Harry.