Sentence examples for something to substitute from inspiring English sources

But the nasal tones of Ethan's narrative voice reveal a lonely little rich boy who needs something to substitute for a distant father's love.

"There wouldn't be any farming in the uplands without the subsidy or something to substitute for it".

The tale's composition in the early period of the Viking Age in Ireland "may have done something to substitute laconic humour and a spirit of ripe burlesque for the dignity and poetical beauty" of other treasures of the Irish sagas.

It's a promising case, but not yet something ready to substitute for a tree in a city park.

We probably all have something we refuse to substitute for a cheaper option.

Knowing how and when to substitute something for something else, in the occasion that the grocery store does not have something or a certain ingredient or a certain ingredient that a recipe calls for is very expensive and not within your budget, the good Italian cook knows how to substitute or use something else.

This is the mathematical expectation of a random variable x, which could be the return, or the gross return, or something else, but we're going to substitute something else.

A contest that starts on Monday at noon will allow participants to submit suggestions for a new person, place, fad or something else ("global recession"?) to substitute for the soon-to-be-outdated reference.

Their only choice that night was to substitute something to fill Lortie's portion of the concert.

Approximately a year-and-a-half ago I attempted to substitute something else.

In that case, you may want to substitute something else to add umami flavor (or find vegan "chicken" stock cubes).