Sentence examples for modern substitutes from inspiring English sources

High-tech materials such as puffer nylon provide modern substitutes to the world's oldest way of keeping warm.

Also, modern substitutes, such as village taps, plumbing, and water tanks, eliminated the physical need for stepwells, if not the social and spiritual aspects.

Besides human sacrifices and their more modern substitutes, the Japanese offered to the gods all the things that man regards as necessary for life (e.g., food, clothing, shelter) or merely useful and pleasing (e.g., means of transportation, tools, weapons, objects of entertainment).

Eighty years later, in the medical room at Halley, the British Antarctic base on the Caird Coast, Gavin Francis finds ample stock of the modern substitutes – body bags and intramuscular injections of antipsychotics (Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, Chatto & Windus, £16.99).

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's reviews were all about plot, as if movies were a modern substitute for the novel -- which in a way they are now, thanks to Siskel and Ebert.

That long-standing tradition is now giving way to its modern substitute: Snapp, Iran's version of Uber, which is also offering something unique – a fleet of female drivers for women and children.

The "t-word," a modern substitute for the "n-word" in the view of Sherman and many others, was used by Dunn to describe blacks – and by extension Davis and his friends — in letters written while Dunn was the one locked up in jail, charged with killing someone and discharging a weapon.

The Harvard psychologist Edwin Boring (1886 1968) saw Bridgman's philosophy as a modern substitute for positivism, and he seems to have coined the term "operationism" (see Walter 1990, 178).

The very best Christmas puddings of today are still made with beef suet rather than modern vegetarian substitutes.

A very different voltage between what the camera expects and what current batteries provide could harm the camera or cause it to not work, but the common voltage conflict is simply fractions of a volt difference between old mercury cells and modern, nontoxic substitutes such as simple, less-steady alkalines and better but less cheap silver oxide cells.

For a modern spin, substitute light-brown sugar for the sugar and full-fat Greek yogurt for the sour cream.