Sentence examples for obvious substitute from inspiring English sources

Few mentioned what seemed the obvious substitute, fresh sour cherries.

Perhaps the most obvious substitute for spatial distance is social distance.

Further, they say, there is no obvious substitute for the testing methods now in use.

(When your major receipts are in the United States, you can't afford to earn the hatred of the broadcast media by mentioning climate change. The blight, an obvious substitute, has probably averted millions of dollars of lost takings).

The obvious substitute was Fernando, a defensive midfielder with impressive fitness and work ethic.

Third, for many uses, there is no obvious substitute for gas.

Unlike in the automotive industry, in which emissions can be cut by shifting to smaller cars or electric vehicles, obvious substitutes don't exist for today's aircraft, and even if they did, it can take decades to deploy them.

However, the structure of PepTSo2 raises an interesting conundrum, as this apparently important salt bridge interaction is not present, with no obvious alternative substitute (Fig. 4).

But although disclaimers and liquidated damage provisions are distinguishable, they are also, in a rather obvious sense, substitutes for one another, and it is useful to treat them together.

Still, it is the relationship between the ur-dorks, the Farrellys themselves, that pervades their scripts, which feature such obvious fraternal substitutes as mentors and protégés, kicks and sidekicks and even, in "Me, Myself and Irene," competing split personalities in search of integration.

View image of (Thinkstock) (Credit: Thinkstock) In his book How to Predict The Unpredictable, the author William Poundstone proposes other tips, such as including avoiding obvious number substitutions – most people substitute the letter "I" with a "1", for example, which creates a false sense of security.