Sentence examples for like substitutes from inspiring English sources

Faintly off-putting, too, is Ms. Goldberg's adherence to the new form of English in which "like" substitutes for "as if," "different than" for "different from," "lay" for "lie," "enormity" for "enormousness," "disinterest" for "uninterest," "access" for "get" and "a moment in time" for "a moment".

(We take this way of putting the example to be the most natural one, but nothing philosophical turns on it. If you like, substitute the possibility of northerners endorsing honor values after exposure to the facts).

"Immigrants are not like-for-like substitutes.

Taking its place has been an unending stream of food-like substitutes - "products constructed largely around commerce and hope, supported by frighteningly little actual knowledge".

Specific modifications of BNC make possible production of cartilage-like substitutes of meniscus, auricular, and nasal concha or even tubes for nerves regeneration.

Taken together, skin-like substitutes can be formed by L-b-L assembling human skin cells and biomimetic nanofibers and they are effective to heal acute full-thickness wounds in nude mice.

The method may not only accomplish the bone formation on the base of template (scaffold), but also optimize the mechanical properties of new formation, and finally may produce the off-the-shelf, bone-like substitutes.

In terms of a like-for-like substitute, perhaps the closest is Narciso Mina, who is likely to get the nod on Wednesday when Ecuador play host to world champions Spain in Guayaquil.

Some emotional tug was missing, some Stooge-like substitute for Diaz or Paltrow.

First improvements were to combine CEA and dermis-like substitute.

Microwaved popcorn is a good treat-like substitute for people yearning for volume.