Sentence examples for substitute for loving from inspiring English sources

And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitute for loving.

It's by no means a substitute for loving arms providing snuggles and warmth in the middle of the night — but when a baby is still in the early days of figuring out how to transition between sleep stages and is accidentally waking themselves up in the middle of the night, the Snoo might help everyone get a bit more sleep.

Joseph Brodsky once wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory.

Obsession, Johnson implies, is a poor substitute for love, and scopophilia a thin alternative to sex.

Did you know that money, though it makes life more comfortable, is no substitute for love?

It's not that he thinks of money as a substitute for love, but at least it's a start.

There's "Once," of course, the multi-Tony Award nominee on Broadway, about young Dubliners making music as a substitute for love.

There is, on the evidence of this movie, no such thing as gay love; there is only gay sex, a superheated substitute for love, with its own code of vulcanized calisthenics whose aim is not so much to sate the participants as to embarrass onlookers from the straight — and therefore straitlaced — society beyond.

As in strictly human affairs, forced affection is a pale substitute for love voluntarily bestowed.

The best friendships aren't a substitute for love, they are love, just not romantic love.

The money gets transposed, it becomes a substitute for love and all that ought to go with a normal relationship.