Adjectives are sometimes used as substitutesfor nouns.
We hesitate to accept such substitutes as Tures and Bearded Vulture for the time-honoured designations of Ibex and Lammergeyer.
There is therefore no temptation to seek substitutes for this, its commonest product, or to employ other materials in its place.
But here our faithful guide, manuscript literature, forsakes us; we enter on a period when none of the ancient substitutes for paper were yet invented.
The Square" or "The Gardens" are sorry substitutes for the Park and the Pleasure-grounds, the Common and the Downs.
Nishga Indians of British Columbia, their use of effigies assubstitutes to save the lives of people, viii.
Chirol, (Sir) Valentine, onsubstitutes for capital punishment in China, iv.
Substitutes for a person" in China, puppets burnt to avert misfortune, viii.
It is painful to look back fifty years and contrast the harmony then pervading every class of every section with the discord and bitterness of hate which substitutes it to day.
A few sections had to be left out even for the chance reason that the leading speakers were obliged to withdraw at a time when it was too late to ask substitutes to work up addresses.
But where they do re-enter reality and terminate therein, we substitute them always; and with these substitutes we pass the greater number of our hours.
They are by no means rich, and are good substitutes for tarts.
Substitutes were allowed under such regulations as the Secretary of War might prescribe.
The ingenious makeshifts and substitutes of the women were innumerable.
The families ofsubstitutes were not made beneficiaries of this fund.
Home Industries; Makeshifts and Substitutes Many articles in common use had now to be made at home, and the plantation developed many small industries.
To this unpromising material had been added conscripts and substitutes in whom the fires of patriotism burned low, and who entered the service very reluctantly.
I have known two men who hired negro substitutes to go to the army, and the negroes having been killed in battle, the whites were forced to go.
The process we have adopted for estimating the glucose starch and dextrin in commercial gum substitutes is based on C.
Gum substitutes consisting entirely of some form of gelatin with water, like fish glue, are also somewhat hygroscopic when dried.
In place of woolen rags, cheap substitutes have been used, such as waste, which contains vegetable fibers.
Chaucer substitutes a brief description of his own, and represents the birds as real live ones, gathering around her; which is much more sensible.
Chaucer substitutes a male messenger for Iris; see ll.
The revolutionary nature of the change is further emphasized in article 3, which substitutes black-red-gold for the black-white-red of the old imperial flag.
The existing law remains in effect with respect to private schools which do not serve as substitutes for public schools.
Defective, because it embraces only a part; unphilosophical, because it substitutes the secondary for the essential.
The spirit which we reprobate substitutes lust for love, philanthropy for charity.
And side by side with the invention of inferior cheap substitutes for existing words and phrases, and infinitely more serious than that invention, goes on a perpetual misuse and distortion of those that are insufficiently known.
About five, a present of some one of the plastic substitutes for modelling clay now sold by educational dealers, plasticine for example, will be a discreet and acceptable present to the child--if not to its nurse.
At Hull, on the other hand, substitutes were sought in open market.
On paper it possessed the merits of all Haldanic substitutes for the real thing.
Intending substitutes themselves not infrequently suffered the same fate ere they could carry out their intention.
Even when the pressed man had procured his substitutes and obtained his coveted discharge, his liberty was far from assured.
The principle underlying their Lordships' gracious acceptance of substitutes for pressed men was beautifully simple.
To this supremacy of the successor of St. Peter the divines object still more strongly than to the power of the episcopate, that it substitutes the pope in the place of Jesus Christ.
She welcomed gracefully whatever adjuncts were furnished by schools and books, but never dreamed of abating her maternal vigilance, or trusting to these as substitutes for home culture.
Those who were near the end of their course were also employed as substitutes for regular ministers when they were temporarily absent.
A disastrous fire in 1829 destroyed all the old carved stalls and misereres, and the modernsubstitutes are fairly successful.
The low Norman aisles have been raised, the windows taken out and replaced by thirteenth-century substitutes in the lowest range and by Decorated ones in the triforium.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substitutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
