Sentence examples for poor substitute for from inspiring English sources

A poor substitute for a "real" present from someone else?

And a fantasy is a poor substitute for government.

The European Parliament is a poor substitute for national legislatures.

Vodka generally makes a poor substitute for gin in a martini or any other gin cocktail.

Critics delight in denigrating it as a poor substitute for invention.

The Lenin statues have been a poor substitute for understandable anger.

Obsession, Johnson implies, is a poor substitute for love, and scopophilia a thin alternative to sex.

In fact, they saw it as a poor substitute for reality; Hobbes called it "decayed sense".

Web commentary is a poor substitute for opinion polling and old-fashioned reporting.

Stanley Cogan, the Queens historian, called an exhibit a poor substitute for the central space itself.

The beach camp we found wasn't horrible, but it was a poor substitute for our cave.