Sentence examples for instead of forking over from inspiring English sources

Users will buy a tablet and hang on to it for multiple years, instead of forking over cash for a new device every year, which many buyers still do for the iPhone.

But instead of forking over the dough, the show invited the couple back for another go.

Instead of forking over $150 million a day to the weapons industry to attack Libya or selling $67 billion in weapons to the Saudis so they can repress not just their own people, but those of Bahrain, we -- the ones being asked to forgo Social Security to help pay for empire -- should demand those who purport to represent us in Washington stop arming dictators in our name.

One of Sarkozy's proposals would allow people who get snagged by France's wealth tax the option of investing their money in small and medium-size companies instead of forking it over to the taxman.

Having free spots, he explained, encourages drivers to cruise around searching instead of just forking over cash to a lot.

More, because you can buy them individually instead of forking out £4 for a single bonus track.

By forking over that one additional share, VW was able to categorize the deal as a restructuring instead of a takeover.

At one table, a steady stream of people forked over $40 for aura photos.

Bloomberg didn't even include the billions of taxpayer dollars paid to Goldman, Merrill, and other AIG counterparties whose CDOs should have been investigated instead forking over protection payments.

None of this has stopped Congress from continuing to fork over funding though.

No one forks over 10 bucks to see one of these flicks for its logic.