Sentence examples for instead picked from inspiring English sources

He eschewed the rematch with Tyson and instead picked up $24m for fighting Evander Holyfield.

He was instead picked by Portland, and played only eight games.

When other women selected the skinniest male Marines to carry on their shoulders during training, as if from the battlefield, she instead picked the heavy ones.

Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, was not elected, but instead picked by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing and pro-business elites.

The electors should have been chosen by party activists but many were instead picked by the leaders of the party in each state.

Ms. Juncaj added that she was supposed to celebrate her engagement the day after her grandmother was killed, and instead picked flowers for her coffin.

Let me, instead, pick apart Chaucer in the library.

England instead pick up a couple of byes.

Instead, pick your favourite living creative artist – and write them a fan letter.

So instead, pick up an old picture frame from a charity shop, throw a sheet of white paper under the glass layer – et voilà!

Memo to Republican governors: Stop issuing news releases and instead pick up the phone, call the Republicans in your Congressional delegations and urge them to negotiate and compromise.