Sentence examples for was and instead from inspiring English sources

I asked him how his daughter was, and instead of telling me all about her SAT scores and extracurricular activities and her summer intern program with some law firm or other, he proudly shared some totally unconfirmed opinions about his daughter for which he was the only source.

At the end of every day, as I gingerly pulled my hiking boots off, I tried not to think about how utterly exhausted I was, and instead reviewed my successes.

Unfortunately Tesla wasn't the businessman that Thomas Edison was and instead of electricity being free to everyone, it became big business.

Few papers and TV channels took the news up to a national level; fewer still reported the story as the caste-based atrocity that it was and instead reported it as the result of an extra-marital affair gone wrong.

Everyone will ask you how your Christmas was and instead of just saying "fine" and be fucking done with it you will actually start relaying your Christmas to them because Christmas is a precious time special to you and you want to share it, to grasp onto the last warm dying tendril of it —even though you know they don't care and you don't care; iii.

It might be time to stop imagining what might have been and instead to focus on what remains.

Regular personal visits were to be cut, and instead, be replaced by telephone calls discussing patients' physiological symptoms.

All of that was gone, and instead I was here in Los Angeles.

Will Cullen, Villanova '10, had a friend who was rejected and instead will be a Fulbright scholar.

The admission fee was waved and instead fans were asked to make donations.

People with myocardial infarction would not be helped and instead would be harmed by defibrillation.