Sentence examples for presents instead of from inspiring English sources

Say, shouldn't graduates be giving their parents presents instead of vice versa?

My son who wanted birthday presents instead of donations has worked weekly for the last two years at a local Head Start program.

If you do, I have some suggestions about ways that you could make the present part of the day last longer: use packing tape to wrap presents instead of Scotch tape.

Kausar Qidwai thought it would be more fun on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday celebrated after Ramadan, to give their children gift-wrapped presents instead of money like they do in their native Pakistan.

Usually when people make Christmas presents instead of buying them, the presents are useless and/or ugly and/or IOU breakfast in bed cards which are real cop-outs.

The last thing you worried about being born on the same day as Jesus Christ was that you got one load of crappy presents instead of two loads of crappy presents," he says.

As a control, for every third stimulus presentation, a blank frame with black background was presented instead of a natural image.

"It's an early Christmas present instead of a lump of coal for loft tenants".

Why or why not? -How can news reporters keep the focus on the events being presented, instead of themselves?

Why or why not? -How can news reporters keep the focus on the events being presented instead of on themselves?

In this more complicated version of the dilemma, however, two unwelcome results are presented instead of one (C, above).