Sentence examples for serving as a placeholder from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Kennedy was not interested in running for a full term, the person said, but was "very open to the idea" of serving as a placeholder.

The crisis in London has left Mr. Murdoch stretched thin and increasingly reliant on his No. 2, Mr. Carey, 58, who was once considered to be serving as a placeholder until one of the Murdoch children took over.

Perhaps he or she is just serving as a placeholder.

"Useful" here serves as a placeholder for a different virtue, an aesthetic one.

Cucinelli showed me the spot by the fireplace intended for the bust of Obama — a pot of lilies served as a placeholder.

"This was intended to serve as a placeholder that would be removed during the conference negotiations and replaced with a mechanism applying to all state governments," Mr. Nelson wrote.

A set of RVs d∙→i representing range measurements at sensor i, where ∙ serves as a placeholder.

Morken did not immediately see this market's potential, so the site lay dormant and served as a placeholder for several years.