Sentence examples for mean instead of from inspiring English sources

I mean, instead of collecting baseball cards I was collecting holy cards".

Then, with impeccable timing, she adds: "I mean – instead of attacking somebody [else], why not use the family?" Romesh grins.

If that means I need to say what I mean instead of waiting for others, so be it.

We decided to use the trimmed mean instead of the normal mean, because we detect some outliers in the sample and this method is more robust with respect to possible outliers.

Overall, it would mean instead of trying to destroy the community of bacteria living on your face, you'd manage it like a microbial zookeeper.

By that I mean, instead of creating the characters and sort of guessing what they would do, I could draw on literally hundreds of case studies that I've read from different children who have been in similar situations and decide how they might react from that.

"Rather than" means "instead of" or "in place of".

That means instead of eight flights, only four are needed for a free ticket.

It means, instead of problems not being discovered, they are finding them".

That meant instead of buying an Isamu Noguchi sofa that cost $15,000, Ms. Larson had one custom-made for $4,000.

This means, instead of earning a potential £100 in interest a year, savers will earn just £45.