Sentence examples for instead of match from inspiring English sources

She had said "lightning" instead of "match".

Flintlocks pulled by a lanyard, instead of match, fired the guns.

We found, for example, that allowing boundaries to overlap instead of match exactly resulted in an f-measure for Model 1 of over 0.92.

"I've never wanted to buy a matching pair of anything," Degen says about offering singles instead of matching socks.

Instead of matching the two parts in style, they have updated the old stadium in terms of spirit.

Instead of matching the states' share of Medicaid, the health care plan for the poor, the federal government would make block grants, indexed to population growth and inflation.

The New York exchange has been investigating whether five of the seven firms that run its auction market, including LaBranche, benefited by trading from their own portfolios in some stocks instead of matching buy and sell orders sent by brokers.

The change to the 401(k) plan was this: instead of matching contributions quarterly, the company would only pay its share for employees who were active on December 31st of a given year.

Instead of matching grants, the federal government ought to move aggressively, emboldened by the Supreme Court's ruling, to insist on a state-of-the-art uniform nationwide voting system.

The Knicks are also relying on Felton to be more than a solid point guard after they acquired him in a sign-and-trade deal instead of matching Jeremy Lin's offer sheet from the Houston Rockets.

On Tuesday, the Big Board disclosed that it was investigating activities by traders in about two dozen stocks and that the traders, known as specialists, might have broken rules by stepping between buyers and sellers, making a slight profit by buying from one and selling to another instead of matching them directly.