Sentence examples for mere substitute from inspiring English sources

I wish I could claim that I was a precocious old soul who understood even then that a city was a worthy beau and not a mere substitute for one, but that would be stretching the truth.

He regards "eudaimon" as a mere substitute for eu zên ("living well").

Having no human offspring, Tatou proved to be more than a mere substitute.

Egyptian influence was minimal and limited to the Ankh, which cannot be interpreted as an emulation of Egyptian rituals but rather a mere substitute to the cup held by the deity.

And even if the new generation of VoIP providers, such as Vonage, really are simplifying things, they nonetheless appear at first glance to be mere substitutes for the incumbent telecoms utilities.

In their absence, a mere 1,100 substitute workers were able to keep power humming to most customers in the state, which has a population of 160 million.

Then synchronization by light-signals could still have been regarded as a mere practical substitute for a notion of absolute simultaneity that stood on independent grounds, empirically as well as conceptually.

The band -- Edsel Gomez on piano, Craig Handy on saxophones and flute, Christian McBride (substituting for Ira Coleman) on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums -- was no mere backup.

Democracy, in order to function, cannot be understood by the participants as a game far from their interests, tending toward the unknown and not easily influenced in its outcomes, or as a mere, more humane substitute for civil war.

In her study, substituting a mere mile per week of normal running at the start with one in minimal shoes "was probably too much," she says.

Mere moments after Popovic substituted Vidosic for impact striker Brendon Santalab, Ferreira came agonisingly close to thrusting the Mariners into a shock lead, only to skew his shot wide.