Sentence examples for was substitute from inspiring English sources
verb
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
"I got sent home a couple times, was substitute teaching in between N.F.L. gigs," he said.
It was substitute Olivier Giroud who broke a deadlock, bundling home after Manuel Neuer's error with just under a quarter of an hour to go.
In the 1970s, I was substitute teaching in a school in the South Bronx — a tough time to be working in a tough part of the city.
Ghana had a great chance in injury time, but it was substitute Gedo's goal - his fifth as sub in this tournament - which won the cup for Egypt Several of the Egypt players are celebrating by climbing onto the crossbar.
Altidore opened his account for the club with 78 minutes gone, but it was substitute Connor Wickham, who had replaced Ji Dong-won early in the second half, who turned the game with a double inside the last four minutes.
You could take your pick from the German team, such is the strength in depth of Joachim Low's World Cup-winning squad, something exemplified by the fact it was substitute Mario Gotze who scored the winner in the final.
I was substitute-teaching at the time, a grinding, chaotic, thankless job, but I didn't really have a choice — we needed money to stay alive, same as anybody else.
Mr. DiCocco said he didn't make a connection that night, but he did have a surprise: one of the women he met was someone who had been a student when he was substitute-teaching in a middle school about 10 years ago.
Henry was substituted at halftime.
Soon after he was substituted.
