Sentence examples for was to substitute from inspiring English sources

The next challenge was to substitute other atoms for the eight hydrogen atoms attached to cubane's corners.

The first change was to substitute brown sugar for the white — in both the icing and the filling.

One of his first acts was to substitute drama for football - he was passionately anti-competitive - and convert the chapel into a rehearsal room for aspiring rock groups.

Its effect was to substitute Mr Ecclestone's company for FOCA, which had been granted a series of leases on the commercial rights since 1981.

Envisioned as an interim measure, it stated its longer-term intention was to "substitute" an upper house "on a popular instead of a hereditary basis".

If, instead of basic SpellCheck or automatic initial caps, Microsoft Word was to substitute whole sentences and proposed conflicts and emotional denouements in your letter to Con Edison demanding that it explain a six-hundred dollar charge, you would cue the music from "2001: A Space Odyssey" and take a machete to your MacBook.

The goal, he said, is to "substitute information for armor".

Far easier, she said, is to substitute parsnips, which are bigger, sweeter, better.

One of a new writer's first responses can be to substitute other verbs for "said".

The key, he found in his research, is to substitute intensity of effort for time.

Mr. Grupp's cure is to substitute some other thought for the fear of financial insecurity.