Sentence examples for meant instead of from inspiring English sources

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

Unfortunately, a sticky valve in the engine meant instead of a 12-minute burn, the rocket fired for less than three minutes.

Potts is a felon, which meant instead of a misdemeanor with a possible three-year sentence, he was facing up to 15 years (with the first five years to be served without parole as a mandatory sentence).

I saw what she meant – instead of sitting on their eggs, some of the penguins would just stand next to them, occasionally rolling the eggs around between their feet.

Over the last year, changes to those services have meant instead of working on Jam features, 100% of our time's been spent updating years-old code libraries and hacking around deprecations just to keep the lights on.

"That meant instead of talking to Coca-Cola executives about bottling -- which is what they used to hear about -- talk to them about what's happening in the world," Don Walker said.

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

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

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".

This means instead of paying corporate and dividend taxes totaling 55percenttheseese firms often paid 11.6percentt less.