Sentence examples for instead of knowing from inspiring English sources

After time you just started getting to know that person as an individual instead of knowing them as you were taught to, you know.

If, instead of knowing a length of a side, you know the radius, you would follow the exact same steps, but your formula for calculating the apothem would be different.

At least you know it can be different instead of knowing it won't change whatsoever.

In fact, we would be unable to make universal judgments of any kind, since there would be nothing universal about our knowledge; instead of knowing that all mules are sterile, we would know only that this mule is sterile and that that mule is sterile.

One of the big pleasures of your book is meeting the same characters in different stories and settings and getting to know them from various perspectives and thereby, paradoxically, instead of knowing them better, knowing them less and less.

One of the big pleasures of your book is meeting the same characters in different stories and settings and getting to know them from various perspectives — and thereby, paradoxically, instead of knowing them better, knowing them less and less.

"I would rather just know instead of not knowing," said Maeder, who lives in Boston.

There are some who are proud, instead of ashamed, of knowing nothing or very little of our own history.

Instead of knowing-but-cosy articles written by columnists – from Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper in the 1930s to Nigel Dempster in the 70s and 80s – gossip shifted from being about words to being entirely about photos, and no one encouraged this shift more than the Brangelina behemoth.

This has led to young writers delivering drafts instead of plays, knowing the humiliation that lies in store.

Instead of simply knowing that the teachers were happy pre-Christmas, we are, for that split second, happy teachers, pre-Christmas.