Sentence examples for understudying for from inspiring English sources

I got the distinct feeling it was understudying for a potato.

"I was out in the hinterlands one time understudying for someone from a TV sitcom," Ms. Robbins said.

He was right, as the Germans know, even if his own impact was limited by the fact the president he was understudying for stayed alive.

For example in August 1950 Williams was understudying for Richard Burton in The Seagull: "Dreary day spent watching the lousiest production of 'Seagull' in rehearsal.

The 29-year-old son of Hull's manager has made 24 generally impressive appearances this season, mainly understudying for Chester or Curtis Davies but sometimes featuring in a back three.

As a young woman in the 1940s, she went to New York to become an actor, understudying for Ethel Merman, inadvertently turning down an affair with Marlon Brando, and working her way to the heart of Broadway, where she eventually became that rarest of things: Sondheim's darling.

Warm season turfgrasses, in particular, have largely been understudied for their carbon sequestration potential.

Corvids are understudied for a reason — many members of the genus live in small, threatened communities on hard-to reach islands.

"I knew Marty was having trouble vocally," says Mr. McGrath (pronounced McGraw), "but I'd understudied for him before, in 'The Goodbye Girl,' and I had never gone on.

Something happened to his film-making after he understudied for Robert Altman on A Prairie Home Companion in 2006, and I think he has yet to process it fully.

He then came sixth in the Star in Athens in 2004, with a different crew, while Simpson understudied for Ben Ainslie, again in the Finn.