Sentence examples for instead of filling up from inspiring English sources

I often wonder whether it wouldn't be better to start with pudding, to get the sugar rush to propel one through the rest of the meal, instead of filling up on torpor-inducing bread.

Instead of filling up, he said, drivers might "pull in, grab a latte from the machine, take care of nature and come back to a car that has now added 25 miles of range".

Mr. Arlet is also constantly on the lookout for time- and money-saving improvements, adding that he himself looks to Toyota's famous Kaizen system for inspiration: Instead of filling up cars at different production points with brake fluid, gasoline, water and other liquids, one machine on each of Tychy's three lines fills each vehicle.

Instead of filling up all of your weekends with trips to the beach, why not try a five-day vacation once over the summer?

The cat-and-mouse substrip was gaining in popularity; instead of filling up space in the bottom of The Dingbat Familys panels, it began to occupy a tier of panels of its own.

I think my parents recognized this, because instead of filling up my days with out-of-the house extracurriculars, they encouraged me to start my own piano teaching and summer camp businesses, and more recently, participate in Stanford's Business and Entrepreneurship course over the summer and take part in the Technovation program to build an app and startup.

Instead of filling out I shot up, which made me look even skinnier.

These savings free up environmental managers to focus on solving problems instead of filling out forms, according to Jeff Gunnulfsen, manager of government relations for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, a trade group that supports the changes.

Instead of filling people up with phentermine and fenfluramine, maybe we should be looking for a vaccine or an antiviral drug.

Instead of a "filling up the tank" with gasoline, these new technology electric cars simply get a quick exchange of batteries at an Electric Station.

That morning, instead of just filling up a bowl with cereal and regular milk, I grabbed a measuring cup, and measured out an amount of Rice Krispies and skim milk that was far less than what any 10-year-old should have been eating.