Sentence examples for instead of punching from inspiring English sources

Instead of punching in whitehouse.gov, which would get them a smiling face of President Clinton, they mistakenly use whitehouse.com.com

Instead of punching the clock, he's punching out some slab of muscles in prison tattoos who had the nerve to act in a manner that even suggested disrespect.

They should be doing that kind of low-budget D.I.Y. work, they thought, instead of punching the clock for the establishment.

Vinson won a unanimous four-round decision, but the crowd booed when he began to showboat during the final round, dancing and weaving instead of punching.

Mr. M'Bala uses lots of long shots to communicate the action, instead of punching up "Adanggaman" with stuttered editing to contrive tension.

Kai Leung, a senior scientist for the Army and the project's primary researcher, suggested picturing the cell as a balloon: instead of punching a hole and popping it, he said, "you have tiny needles, creating tiny leak points.

This one featured praises instead of punches.

This production is touched by a subliminal awareness that the desperately, destructively in love Amanda (Ms. Cattrall) and Elyot (Mr. Gross) could, in another context, have gone the route of Romeo and Juliet instead of Punch and Judy.

McBride is co-writing the forthcoming reboot of "Halloween," and he said he'd learned that "horror is very similar to comedy, the same mathematics and engineering, except that, instead of punch lines, you're figuring how to place your 'jumps.' " McBride is a member of the Writers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Actors Guild, and now he hopes to join the Producers Guild.

A successful test in Arizona on March 11 could give the process much-needed credibility, speeding the day when elections will be decided by mouse clicks instead of punch cards.

She was one of the few women who got some respect from Józef, instead of punches.