Instead example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use instead in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for instead.
- She went to her room, instead. (8)
- And, instead, he looked at her. (8)
- But he thought over Irene instead. (8)
- He was looking forward instead of back. (10)
- Instead of helping, they refused him succour. (19)
- To ride out in the night instead of reposing! (10)
- He looked inside instead of out, and lost the clue. (10)
- He rose; he was about to speak, but yawned instead. (10)
- Night fell; the wind instead of calming grew fiercer. (19)
- I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. (8)
- A little table was wanted on both sides, instead of on one. (8)
- But, instead, her lips left a patch of grievous uneasiness. (8)
- I must be, or I should be proving the contrary instead of asking. (10)
- Taking his hat, instead, he dashed round to the nearest flower shop. (8)
- They lighted, instead of staining, her unparalleled high character. (10)
- He told the cabman to drive Northward, instead of to the South-west. (10)
- Come to us instead, and have perfect freedom, till all this blows over. (8)
- It is best to flutter a handkerchief, instead of nailing up a curtain. (10)
- Instead of penillions and englyns, there would be days for fiery triplets. (10)
- And oddly, instead of smiling, Mr. Paramor looked at him with haunting eyes. (8)
- Instead of going up to him, she sat down on the corded trunk and began to sob. (8)
- He got up and rushed to the bell, but did not ring it, and ran upstairs instead. (8)
- You would, then, have us be trading with tokens instead of a precious currency? (10)
- Lesser figures were squires instead of partners, their chiefs as knights of old. (16)
- She ceased to have the galloping wild feeling in her heart, and instead felt cold. (8)
- A green old age ought to be your ideal, instead of which it seems to be a green youth. (8)
- If I did not, I should be looking on mist, hearing a perpetual boom instead of music. (10)
- Instead of replying, Richard dropped into a chair, and seized his hand and kissed it. (10)
- Instead, therefore, of objurgating the timid intrusions of Philosophy, invoke her presence, I pray you. (10)
- The stroke of Then and Now rang in his breast like a bell instead of a bounding heart. (10)
- Instead of staying at Lyme, he went off to Plymouth, and then he went off to see Edward. (4)
- I took it out, looked into it, and found the notes gone, and these shaving papers instead. (8)
- A gentleman behind him spoke in his ear; and Simeon, instead of ceasing, resumed his flow. (10)
- The mental distilling process sets in later, and then you have irony instead of eloquence. (10)
- This frightened him, and instead of continuing to boast of his success, he called for help. (5)
- Instead, a tall and fat-cheeked gentleman with a neat moustache, called Mabbey, was practising the spot-stroke. (8)
- He had the look of the prodigal, returned with impudence for his portion instead of repentance. (22)
- Surely love should be beautiful, and peaceful, instead of filling me with bitter, wicked thoughts. (8)
- She pitied him; helpless and lonely he seemed to her, asleep there instead of going to bed properly. (8)
- He behaved toward him as to a reasonable person, and felt the rebellious rancour instead of the pity. (10)
- Instead, she sank into the chair which stood in the corner, and passed her hand over her forehead, as if she were giddy. (9)
- But Crocker had suddenly ceased to snore; his head had fallen so that a peculiar whistling arose instead. (8)
- George put down his glass, and instead of going to his usual place, mounted slowly to the top of the stand. (8)
- It is such an abominable trick to be ill here instead of at Bath that I can scarcely command myself at all. (4)
- Nevil should have stuck to that, instead of trying to galvanize the country and turning against his class. (10)
- Instead of drawing his brother off to a window while they waited for dinner, he was talking to Miss Fairfax. (4)
- She could have writhed, and cried out; instead, she tightened her grip on the handle of her bag, and smiled. (8)
- Instead of feeding that part of man which loves a scandal, she was being fed, always an unenviable sensation. (8)
- A hat on the brows shows a man who can take more, but thinks he will go home instead, and does so, peaceably. (10)
- Instead of the usual rumbling of the trolleys, the rattle of coal discharged over the screens, there was silence. (8)
- Instead of a fallen load, she fancied presently that it was an expectation she was desiring to realize: but what? (10)
- Well, instead of making a good thing by it, I must find ten or twelve thousand dollars, and find it mighty quick. (13)
- Instead of accepting this challenge, Guy stepped to Werner, and laid his moaning foe length-wise in an easier posture. (10)
- Or why had not she rather gone to her own room, as she had felt to be safest, instead of attending the rehearsal at all? (4)
- It led me to perceive the difference of her published position in visiting a duellist lover instead of one assassinated. (10)
- Instead of this they had gone to the Shoreham Club for a few weeks in August, putting off the journey East till the fall. (13)
- And there we see the girder which supports the floor-joists resting upon the chimney instead of on a special pier or column. (17)
- Intimations of cowardice menacing a paralysis of the will Irony instead of eloquence Is it any waste of time to write of love? (10)
- Being a fool, I neglected to take him by the throat and pitch him into the treetops below, but muttered some polite lie instead. (1)
- With it, instead of receiving his inspiration from without, as had been the case with the preceding operas, it came from within. (3)
- They declared themselves to her as finalities, just as if she had suddenly discovered that her husband had four toes instead of five. (13)
- It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceedingly troublesome. (4)
- Should such principles prevail, revolution would become constitutional, and we should have another Mexico instead of the country we love. (14)
- Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, instead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat. (4)
- Next morning he got his cheque cashed, but avoided the shop of the dove-grey dress like the plague; and, instead, bought himself some necessaries. (8)
- Sometimes a prosperous day has not been confidently expected and the management orders a four- instead of the usual five-centre-pole tent raised. (21)
- Then she planted herself still more firmly on her seat, and, instead of uttering a friendly greeting, coughed and muttered a few unintelligible words. (5)
- Both Chloe and Beau Beamish wrinkled their foreheads at the disorderly notes of triple horns, whose pealing made an acid in the air instead of sweetness. (10)
- Incidents of a kind casting ridicule on our unfortunate nature instead of our conventional life, provoke derisive laughter, which thwarts the Comic idea. (10)
Also see sentences for: instantly, instigated.
Definition of instead:
- instead, in-sted’, adv. in the stead, place, or room of. (0)
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