Sentence examples for were substitutes from inspiring English sources
verb
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
Both players were substitutes, Tejada for Jason Giambi of the Yankees, Berkman for Ken Griffey Jr. of Cincinnati.
Some quarter of the players, more than 20, were substitutes, filling in for orchestra musicians who had left or taken other work during the lockout.
In historic times, the rites involved animals, especially cats, burnt alive within basket-work effigies of men: Frazer wrote that he believed the animals were substitutes for the humans who had once been sacrificed this way.
But these were substitutes for his literary activity, and, though some of the professors in the local university at Jena showed a polite interest, he could not achieve in science the recognition he had won in poetry.
Moreover, these two factors were substitutes for each other.
As illustrated in Table 5, dried dung and biogas were substitutes.
Consequently, the input factors are substitutes.
Symbols are substitutes for words.
Disappointed to be substituted.
Henry was substituted at halftime.
