Sentence examples for substitute world from inspiring English sources

The book could never, in fact, have been any shorter, because it needed to feel like a whole substitute world, a full-blown reassuring place — you're right, they're wrong; you're special, they're not — into which the discoverer can jump, as into a magic wardrobe, and then live, happily, airlessly, for weeks of reading and rereading.

Is there a more luxurious substitute in world football?

His unconscious substitute of "world" for "United States" was apt.

And when another, unrelated Wright named James tried to devise a rubber substitute during World War II, he came up with a substance that was an industrial failure but a playtime success: Silly Putty.

But you can substitute any world leader or popular figure.

3D "virtual worlds are a low cost computer program that can simulate and/or substitute real-world activities through a person's avatar" (Gregory 2007, online).

I generally just go on instinct, though I try to make sure that readers don't make the mistake of substituting the world of a novel or story for the messier world we live in.

Pretoria, 15 March 2012 – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) welcome last week's publication by the Government of South Africa of draft regulations based on the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and World health Assembly Resolutions.

UNICEF & WHO welcome South Africa's efforts to protect and support breastfeeding 15 March 2012 –UNICEF and the World Health Organization welcome last week's publication by the Government of South Africa of draft regulations based on the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and World health Assembly Resolutions.

* Fourth highest use of methadone (heroin substitute) in the world.

He was a substitute in the World Cup for the dysfunctional French team.