Substitutes
['sʌbstə,tjʊt]
Examples
- The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The principal silage crop is corn, but in different parts of the country there are other crops which can be used to great advantage as substitutes for corn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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