Sentence examples for instead of old from inspiring English sources

I like that we're now buying young players with potential instead of old has-beens.

Instead of old Nelly Dean, an ayah is the voice of sense.

Sometimes one daughter gets preferential treatment, by receiving newly synthesised components instead of old, battered and repaired ones.

The trees are different: instead of old, complex trees that might be 3 metres in diameter and 90 metres high, there is a young, relatively simple forest.

The bituminous stench of water boiling for tea endures, but loudspeakers blare the theme of "Titanic" instead of old patriotic marches.

Most bots are limited to chatting about a handful of well-defined topics anyway, so rejigging them to talk about printer problems (instead of old "Star Trek" episodes, say, or Bill Clinton) is a doddle.

The Georgia introduced in 1887 was the first Old Bay Line boat to have a modern screw propeller instead of old-fashioned side paddlewheels and the Alabama launched in 1893 was the company's first steel-hulled vessel.

Instead of old-fashioned coups, countries like Ivory Coast now have bloody elections, and multiparty politics has become largely a matter of ethnic conflict.

Instead of old-fashioned values, though, they find blonde, fake-breasted moms with daughters who emulate the high style of Vegas prostitutes and "Jersey Shore".

Instead of old-fashioned sunflowers, which produce one supersize head on a stiff ungainly stalk, look for modern branching types that produce multiple flowers.

Telecommunications companies have many ways to report their sales, although transactions engineered to illustrate strong revenue growth became more fashionable in the late 1990's as investors prized healthy sales instead of old-fashioned profits.