Sentence examples for instead of hello from inspiring English sources

Try answering the phone with "Merry Christmas" instead of "hello".

For the fourth call, instead of "hello" I got, "You are to eat up".

And the corporate chirpiness — desk clerks say "Aloha" instead of hello — fell flat.

For instance, he explained, if he sees someone he knows in the chat room, he can type "hug Kim" instead of "hello".

TC messages are used for sending information regarding the adjacent nodes which contains the MPR selector list, instead of Hello messages which are used in order to discover information about the link status and the host's neighbours.

Having literally just learnt English from Biff and Chip books, I had to unlearn it: saying "easy" instead of "hello" and "come" instead of "came"—as in: "He come round my house and I didn't even have my extensions in," rather than: "No, he did not come on my face, thank you very much".

Instead of at hello, Ryan had them at Super Bowl, which was among the first topics of his first meeting with the players.

You might say hello to me, but instead of saying hello back I could be writing a dissertation, buying an ant farm, planting a garden made of virtual strawberries, teaching myself pilates, observing my hair's evolution over a decade of photos, or watching a video of a cat dancing to the Macarena.

In Coq one never has to worry about side effects, though I/O in Coq is peculiar: instead of printing "Hello, World!" directly, we output a program, which if interpreted correctly, prints "Hello, World!".

I was aware of some people doing it instead of saying hello.

"Morty, I hope I didn't cause you pain by mentioning Barbara," she blurted, instead of saying hello.