Sentence examples for were instead of from inspiring English sources

We didn't sing with American accents and we didn't talk on stage with American accents, and that was always important so younger people could believe in what they actually were, instead of looking for something else".

Women, ethnic groups, the disabled and gays have each tried to demonstrate that their situation resembled that of African-Americans in the 1950's, that they were discriminated against because of who they were instead of what they did.

If obesity does directly cause early deaths, they calculate that if all those who are overweight or obese were instead of normal weight, one in seven early deaths could be avoided in Europe and one in five in north America, where obesity rates are higher.

In "The Stuff That Happened" (editorial, March 19), you say "there is no time to imagine what the world might be like if George Bush had chosen to see things as they were instead of how he wanted them to be three years ago".

They had assumed that the net would not spread far enough to touch them — that they would be safe staying where they were instead of breaking up into small groups and disappearing across the border into Cambodia, just a couple of miles farther west along the canal.

Just like Wang Laboratories — and thousands of other once-dominant companies that stubbornly clung to what they thought they were instead of what they needed to be — the maker of the BlackBerry has become an object lesson in the vagaries of capitalism.

That's instead of room service.

The X Files is instead of politics.

Arguing is instead of sex.

I could have been, instead of Matthieu.

"It was instead of saying 'stop being an asshole'".