Sentence examples for instead of even from inspiring English sources

He didn't know, or care, that instead of coming there to be insulted by him, I could have gone directly home to reheat my dinner and finally eat, that I could have kissed my children goodnight that evening instead of even being on that stage at all, climbing on top of that bunk bed.

Why have the fundamentals models had zero predictive power instead of even 40 percent?

Instead of even considering the possibility that Finuccio's was, in fact, behind the robbery, you'll think, At least we still have our food!

Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Updated at 2.03am BST 1.55am BST Tammy Duckworth gets the most telling shot against Mitt Romney so far tonight: He chose to criticize President Obama instead of even uttering the word Afghanistan.

Instead of even defending the N.R.A.'s peculiar reading of the Second Amendment, which literally excises the "well-regulated militia" part as though it had never been written, LaPierre ranted against Democrats.

That'll make networks' jobs harder: to ensure Game of Thrones fans stay titillated, they'll have to make sure there's a true coital panorama so that you can't look away and accidentally see a table that's being used for cereal instead of even more pointless shagging.

It is governed by Israeli law, is designed by Israeli citizens with Israeli interests, thus any law is exclusive and one-sided instead of even-handed and fair.

Go to the theatre for matinée performances instead of evening shows, and snap up last-minute tickets from one of the many stalls around Leicester Square, Covent Garden and The Strand.

Instead, visualization of even one among sliding, pulse or B lines allows ruling out pneumothorax as the cause of the clinical storm.

This year, Switzerland will become our No.1 market, instead of Hong Kong, even though Asia will remain over 50 percent of our market".

But instead of offering even a scratch-pad idea of a solution — community-oriented computing devices, for instance — he shrugs.