Sentence examples for instead of wiping from inspiring English sources

Add to this the fact that the left wing Julian Savea is beginning to treat everyone as doormats, instead of wiping his feet exclusively on players clad in England white, and there are reasons to think that Hansen has successfully pulled the best stunt of all by getting the best out of his players when it really counts.

Instead of wiping out bacteria randomly, the way regular soap or alcohol-based products do, triclosan may inhibit the growth of bacteria in a way that leaves a larger proportion of resistant bacteria behind, according to lab studies at Tufts and Colorado State Universities, among others.

Instead of wiping out the bustling, brightly lighted past of Times Square and replacing it with something akin to a suburban office park, a new plan called for restoring the district's "razzmatazz," with large illuminated billboards, entertainment venues and office towers that reflected the street life of the area.

"So she showed him, that is to say she wiped her eyes, and then gave it back to him, saying: 'Now you do it,' but instead of wiping his own eyes he wiped hers, and she thought it would be best to pretend that this is what she had meant," writes Barrie.

"Mrs. Fletcher" is lit up by flashes of acute observation — the fastidious way, for example, that a character who has just chowed down on hot wings pulls a napkin from a dispenser and, instead of wiping his face, "unfolded it very carefully and laid it over his plate, like he was covering his bones with a blanket".

Instead of wiping the blood off with a rag or tissue, we would rub it into the rabbit.

According to custom, after going to the toilet, he would wash instead of wipe.

In a wide world that has long embraced the effectiveness of anus-washing after doing number two, America hangs back, clutching our rolls of Charmin, despite plenty of evidence that it would serve us better to wash instead of wipe.

You can dab instead of wipe if your nose is really raw.

Landlords who lose can now expect tribunals to agree conditions or discounts to leaseholders' bills instead of effectively wiping them out.

Yet, the second investment is actually a better bet, as it has only one chance in 60 of wiping out each year, instead of one in 50.