Sentence examples for instead of he from inspiring English sources

And instead of "he" or "she," the apropos pronoun would be "v".

Stretching for the fanciful — writing "he crafts or pens" instead of "he writes"; writing "he muses" instead of "he says or thinks" — is a sure tip-off of weak writing.

"Why not a woman playing a fucking trumpet, man, what's wrong with that?" as Colman puts it, while the novel laughs at the daftness in our traditionally received notions about gender and overturns them to such an extent that it starts to become obscene, an act of deep disrespect and ignorance, when people refer to the Joss we know as "she" instead of "he".

The school board in the Canadian city has approved a new policy which allows pupils to be referred to as "xe, xem and xyr" instead of "he or she", "him or her", and "his or hers".

So the New York Times made a perfectly acceptable choice when it followed the words "It was not" with "him" instead of "he". Grammatically, "he" would have been fine, too.

Your personal profile should be about you and your specific skill set, so using "I" instead of "he" or "she" will create a clear, assertive profile.

Instead of sympathy, he said, he sometimes found hostility.

"He looked upward instead of downward," he said.

Instead of oils, he reached for dirt, paper, and clay; instead of painting, he packed, assembled, and stacked.

Instead of water, he struck oil.

Instead of praying, he turns to Robinson Crusoe.