Sentence examples for instead of fooling from inspiring English sources

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On practically every phone call on the new CD, instead of fooling the telemarketers, he ends up annoying them -- and, in the process, the listener.

In Pompano Beach, a woman attacked her boyfriend after he decided to watch Sunday Night Football instead of "fooling around" with her.

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No? Instead of "Fools Names and Fools Faces, Always Found in Public Places," I've raised my kids with the assurance that nothing they can say or do will shock me (ok, there have been a few exceptions already, I'll grant you that), that everything's been done before in one form or another, that life is about making mistakes and how we rebound from them.

Jaclyn Levine, 9, said she did laps instead of "just fooling around" during free swim at camp.

But instead of being fooled by an illusion, people might just have a rational reluctance to predict the unknowable, says Frederick, who cites a famous quotation from the great 20th century mathematician John von Neumann: "There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about".

If you are going to buy a used card, instead of being fooled, stare at the pci-express bridge connectors, which look like gold platted.

Instead of making fools of themselves on national television, they manage to leave the den with £75,000 investment and a new business partner, Nick Jenkins.

In 30 years you'll probably even look like a tragic political figure, instead of a fool.

That money could have been spent creating real clean energy jobs instead of the fool's errand of keeping a dying coal industry on life support.

Instead of having to fool with multiple input/output cables, the two units can be directly linked, allowing the receiver to decode digital audio format while the DVD player focuses on picture.

In a plot turn that even my cat saw coming, Olivia 2 made the jump instead of Olivia 1, completely fooling her pals.

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