They are more economical in a car, where they help electricity substitute for something more expensive, like gasoline.
First of all it was a substitute for something – wood – and it looked ugly to our eyes.
But though turmeric has many virtues, substituting for saffron is not usually among them, unless you want a bitter, one-dimensional substitute for something grand and complex.
("Adjectival" is Ned's delicate substitute for something more explicit, and thus perhaps the most frequently used word in the whole book).
While it certainly offers numerous insights into Adolf Hitler and the wider context that made his monstrous career possible, A. N. Wilson's "Hitler" ultimately falls short as a satisfactory substitute for something more substantial.
"There is no way that sales online are going to substitute for something that is tangible," said Eduardo Lago, a novelist and executive director of Instituto Cervantes New York, a nonprofit group created by the Spanish government.
Your author would observe, of course, that the pies are a substitute for something else that Eugenia is trying to give her son, as his hostility to the pies is a refusal to receive it.
And when you see setters refer to themselves in a clue, since the setter is the person writing the words, that reference can be substituted for something along the lines of "I".
Still, what we have here is a painful combination: her sense that she was without beauty, her sense that she could not make the kind of ballets she most valued, her sense that what she did was just a substitute for something else, something more longed-for, which, inexplicably, other people had and she didn't.
He went hiking every day, and I'd watch for him coming back at dusk and it only struck me after a few days that he might be a substitute for something – that nightly family feeling; that sense of expected, and fulfilled, return.
