Sentence examples for sometimes replaced by from inspiring English sources

Fabric-on-wood-frame sails were sometimes replaced by all-wood sails with removable sections.

To minimize cost, argon is sometimes replaced by nitrogen or compressed air at the beginning of the blow.

As a prerequisite to marriage, it is sometimes replaced by a simpler ceremony, which takes place on the day of marriage; often both initiation ceremonies are omitted altogether.

In the studios, when the first hip-hop records were made, d.j.s were sometimes replaced by live bands, and the m.c., or rapper, became central to the music.

Military regimes are sometimes replaced by a new version of the same type of regime, as in Nigeria in 1993, when Abacha replaced Babangida.

The live orchestra was sometimes replaced by tape as in excerpts from "Moon," a bouncy ensemble piece by the modern-dance chorographer Jennifer Muller.

The absence of notable linkage peaks in the remaining families conforms to a polygenic model with frequent alleles, sometimes cosegregating and sometimes being replaced by variants of different lineage or of other genes.

The high stakes of the real-world conflicts that inform these novels are sometimes replaced, in the fictional versions, by lower stakes.

Steam locomotives are sometimes being replaced by older diesel ones.

But "old euphemisms" had sometimes been replaced by "misleading new cliches" and a commercial obligation to write about sex in detail, the Man Booker Prize winner says in a Radio 3 programme.

Podium girls are a tradition in cycling races, although in recent years they have sometimes been replaced by podium men – or podium people, to give them their non-sexist, all-for-equality name.