Sentence examples for instead of walking to from inspiring English sources

While engineers have, perhaps characteristically, figured out fantastic products for sitting still – Munchery instead of walking to lunch, Uber instead of walking to the bus stop – services to make you move have been less compelling for consumers.

Instead of walking to school, she now has to take a train, doubling her commute to half an hour.

A store owner might check online to see if a product is in stock for a customer instead of walking to the shelves and finding out.

If you were not a member of the City Council, you might think it is similar to paying extra for orange juice at the corner store instead of walking to the supermarket.

Watney, who shot an 81 himself, replaced it with a 7. Instead of walking to the 10th tee for the playoff, Johnson walked, head down, to the clubhouse shower, like a relief pitcher who had just thrown the pitch that was hit for a game-ending home run.

Now instead of walking to school, I would stand in front of our tall building on the worn tarmac, made bronze by the early light, knowing that my mother was on the balcony eight floors above, and that she wouldn't turn to go back in until the giant yellow bus, like a lost page from an American cartoon, had rolled up and I boarded.

Make a goal of taking the stairs instead of the elevator and of walking to a coworker's desk instead of asking him something over email.

I always dreamed of walking to school instead of being in the valley, but it definitely created an interesting life for me.

We also discuss ways to increase lifestyle activity (e.g., taking the stairs, standing instead of sitting, walking to the store), as opposed to 'exercising', to stress that exercise is a task not requiring sustained or extreme energy, concentration, and motivation, but it can be a more casual experience that can last for a relatively short period of time and still be helpful.

He now uses a knee, ankle and foot brace but often skates, instead of walks, to the bus stop.

Path-based kernels [ 20] use paths instead of walks to avoid "tottering" problems related to walk-based kernels (i.e., high similarity values resulting from cycles or loops in the graphs).