Sentence examples for life substitute from inspiring English sources

For the vegetarians in your life, substitute fake bacon for the real bacon.

Peppiatt proceeds on his straight way, girlfriends coming and going, though one is never in doubt that Bacon remains the most important figure in his life – a substitute, moreover, for his own unsatisfactory father, a manic-depressive who bullied the family for years.

UN diplomatic/peacekeeping military interjection, even if rather feeble, may be a relatively cost effective (in economic, political and real life currency) substitute for U.S. action.

A copy of life was substituted, and they got through.

(No spoilers; it's not seppuku but a brilliantly conceived, humanistic, life-giving substitute).

In José Saramago's nightmare vision, the Western world is a commercial anaconda devouring life and substituting itself in life's place.

Chronically disappointed in men, she had taken to celibacy, but didn't really give the impression of having found a life-giving substitute for sexuality or a non-depressing way to sublimate her big, bold ego.

"[The HGA] blatantly disregards the European convention on human rights, which requires states to intervene at an early stage when there is a danger that could threaten life, and substitutes the softer stipulation that Turkey may only intervene in the pipeline project when there is 'an imminent material threat' to safety or security".

We substitute life, the fleshly, for history.

Such are the byways of life: unexpected letdowns, substitute thrills, sudden discoveries.

But under Bute's influence he imagined that his duty was to purify public life and to substitute duty to himself for personal intrigue.