Sentence examples for instead of wants from inspiring English sources

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Instead of wanting to excommunicate our trash, we often treat it as if it were not refuse at all.

But it was a holiday, the beginning of a new year, so instead of wanting my mom to be someone different from who she was, I took her hand and suggested we make brisket from Beauty's recipe cards.

Instead of wanting the biggest and the newest, even if it requires a long commute, buyers now demand something smaller, cheaper and, thanks to $4-a-gallon 4-a-gallon 4-a-gallonr jobs as possible.

"When the recession hit, there was less disposable income and consumers were worried about gotta-haves instead of want-to-haves," said Marty Brochstein, the senior vice president for industry relations and information at the association.

I didn't want to read about Cathy and Heathcliff's destructive relationship or tragic Shakespearean lovers; I wanted something exciting, something to make me think instead of wanting to cry every time I opened the pages.

"Only trouble can arise if instead of wanting to make a book that you like even better than it is, you want to change it into something that it isn't".

Instead of wanting to be in the most powerful community of nations in the western world, Bild suggested the UK was sleepwalking towards a disastrous exit as other nations would not meet its demands.

Perhaps the worst thing that headphones say about us is that instead of wanting to be more like Nigella (Bundt pans, 2003, the year of How to Be a Domestic Goddess) we now take our aesthetic cues from footballers.

Imagine if, instead of wanting to privatise the NHS, Nigel Farage pledged to increase taxes to fund its expansion … Michael Booth Population: 23.7 million Net migration 2010-14: 750,000 People turning up on boats.

Instead of wanting to seem interesting, Bushies want to seem effective.

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