Preposition instead of Sentences Examples, Preposition instead of in a Sentence
1. We shake hands instead of bowing.
2. They shake hands instead of bowing.
3. Let’s go by train instead of by bus.
4. We planted peanuts instead of cotton.
5. I’ll take onion rings instead of fries.
6. 56.Mary went there instead of her mother.
7. I stayed home all day instead of going to work.
8. Emily decided to buy a skirt instead of a jacket.
9. Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
10. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
11. My sister should study her lessons instead of watching TV.
12. Samuel chose to live with his father instead of his mother.
13. What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
14. Children should eat beneficial vegetables and fruits instead of fast food.
15. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.
16. Count your joys instead of your woes. Count your friends instead of your foes.
17. Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
18. Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
19. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
20. Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
21. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.
22. Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
23. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
24. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
25. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
26. What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
27. Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave?
28. My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
29. One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
30. It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
31. Instead of a Lemonade Stand, I should open up a “You know what I can’t stand?” Stand. I’ll sell rants in small, medium, and large.
32. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
33. Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
34. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war.
35. Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
36. Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
37. If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
38. We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
39. This generation… they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it – they’re very hedonistic and sensual.
40. So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
41. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.
42. Actually, since I’m gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don’t have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.
43. At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.
44. Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to economic growth twice over.
45. Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
46. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
47. I’ve always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
48. When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you’re destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
49. Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
50. Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that’s a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
51. I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?
52. I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
53. Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the ’90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we don’t spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
54. At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
55. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you.
56. I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
57. Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
58. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
