Sentence examples for stand-ins for from inspiring English sources

But the dead are imperfect stand-ins for the living.

In court, jurors are stand-ins for everyone else.

Books become stand-ins for friends and clients.

They became stand-ins for my father and me.

Mappa and pepperwood burl are excellent stand-ins for buckling plaster and peeling paint.

The bells, excavated in Shandong in 1977, are apt stand-ins for Confucius.

In neither case are they obvious stand-ins for any real national adversary.

Other actors also have multiple roles, with stand-ins for the pornographic bits.

Cinematic extras, like historical commonplaces, serve as stand-ins for a character's thought.

Wouldn't these make perfectly good stand-ins for Lonesome George's tenuous lineage?

Some are toys, most are figures used by artists as stand-ins for live models.