Sentence examples for instead of write from inspiring English sources

I'd love nothing more than to scrub the kitchen floor instead of write this, but, sadly, I'm not allowed.

In the letters he did send, he made so many underlinings ("Jack is working, but on what I know not: he's being secretive") that one can feel him itching to talk instead of write.

I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology.

What does Roth do instead of write?

Call instead of write.

I read books instead of writing them.

Instead of writing that on your arm, just write "Roland Barthes".

Win them over instead of writing them off.

For example, instead of writing "June 4," the date of the Tiananmen crackdown, people would write "May 35".

Now, instead of writing ad copy to sell ourselves, we write "profiles".

"Instead of writing about a prostitute, we were going to get prostitutes to write for us".