Sentence examples for instead of home from inspiring English sources

I was wishing my wife were here with me instead of home in New York.

"We need to look at hitting singles instead of home runs," he said.

If these claims were true, states with commercial casinos would be centers of social disorder instead of home to successful communities that see casinos as valuable local partners.

The programme showed that lots of technical language was used in the midst of important conversations; saying "placement", instead of "home".

"Once you come in here and become a permanent judge, you begin to see that you spend most of your life here, instead of home," Masipa once said.

If, for example, a pet has to be picked up at the vet's instead of home, beepers insure that the dog won't be stranded.

This is the equivalent of offering children "ready meals" instead of home-cooked food.

Instead of home-made pasta and fruit lovingly plucked from the orchard, Slater told gleeful stories of Angel Delight and Rolos bought from the Spa shop.

She knows what it is to have your children visit you behind bars, to feed them vending-machine candy instead of home-cooked meals, to miss birthdays and school conferences and Christmas.

The threat from an international group like Al Qaeda is different from that of a domestic terrorist — and no one will know how Norwegians would have reacted had the attack been the work of Islamist extremism instead of home-grown, right-wing extremism.

It is the same premise you have seen before, only this time it is set in schools instead of homes.