Sentence examples for instead of houses from inspiring English sources

There are canyons where the roads should be and plenty of rubble instead of houses.

He was inspired by the successful mass production of cars, shoes and radios, but instead of houses moving along the line, his workers did.

In recent months, American drone strikes have targeted vehicles instead of houses and compounds in an apparent effort to limit the civilian deaths.

INVESTMENT bankers would hate to admit it, but traditionally they have borne some resemblance to estate agents, matching buyers and sellers of financial assets instead of houses and land and taking a fee on the transaction.

Stylistic detail aside, both are a distinctive central European version of the garden city idea, with flats instead of houses, and lush communal areas surrounding them rather than private front gardens.

During that time, the usual house price-rent ratio — that is, what people will pay to rent a home versus the monthly mortgage fees they're willing to pay to buy it — became inflated, so that instead of houses being priced at 10 to 15 times their rent, they were selling for 20 times their rent or more.

Today, instead of housing America's oldest gun maker, the sprawling complex shelters a well-known housing ministry.

The picture suggested that society prefers to solve the homeless problem by killing people instead of housing them.

Instead of housing the athletes in an anodyne village open the doors of Queen's and King's and let them in.

Instead of house-hunting gimmicks, executives in the wireless industry are now talking about more mundane services like simple text messaging.

He's the kind of writer who loves to say "dwelling" or "abode" instead of "house"; his book is full of missives, yuks, females, hail-fellows-well-met, goofy grins, "gut-busting schtick sessions," and "genuine guffaws".