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Example sentences for "used instead"

  • An iron frying pan may be used instead of griddle.

  • Sweetened whipped cream may be used instead of this filling.

  • Price's Baking Powder may be used instead of yeast to leaven bread.

  • You may dilute condensed milk with one-half water, which may also be used instead of cream, but in using sweet cream you get a nice rich fudge, and there is not as much danger of its curdling.

  • Maple sugar may be used instead of the white.

  • Nonparaf= must be used instead of paraffine in all candy made for sale, on account of the pure food laws.

  • Vegetables, such as corn and canned peas, may be used instead of bread crumbs to stuff tomatoes.

  • Doilies with pads underneath them, lunch or breakfast cloths, or table runners (see Figure 33) may be used instead of the table-cloth.

  • Puffed cereals or shredded coconut may be used instead of peanuts.

  • It is clear that you can be used instead of ye only so far as it is nominative in power.

  • In vulgarisms like I goes, I is, one person is used instead of another.

  • In vulgarisms like I are, we goes, one number is used instead of another.

  • While a platter can be used instead of a marble slab in making fondant and some other candies, yet, since the marble is naturally cool, the candy syrups will cool much more quickly on it and for this reason is desirable.

  • Preserved fruits can be used instead of the jelly, and in this case, especially if the preserves are thick, no gelatine need be used.

  • A tablespoonful of vinegar can be used instead of lemon juice if desired.

  • Sea foam candies are those in which the white of egg is used, while the cream candies are made much after the same manner as fondant is made, except that cream is used instead of water.

  • One-half Graham and one-half rye meal may be used instead of wheat flour, or two cups of corn meal and one of flour.

  • Graham may be used instead of rye, and baked as above.

  • Almost any cold meats can be used instead of beef.

  • Cornstarch may be used instead of the flour, and some cooks add nutmeg or celery salt.

  • Vinegar may be used instead of lemon juice if the latter is not conveniently had.

  • Sago, tapioca, or a little dried julienne may be used instead of the vermicelli.

  • Wholemeal biscuits or Allinson rusks may be used instead of bread if one is on a walking tour, cycling trip, or boating excursion, or even on ordinary occasions for a change.

  • Other cereals, as oatmeal or cerealine, may be used instead of rice.

  • Peas, flageolets or wax beans, cut fine, may be used instead of the asparagus.

  • American dairy cheese may be used instead of the Parmesan.

  • The hydrochlorate of morphia may be used instead of the acetate, with advantage.

  • Lactate of calcium may be used instead of lactate of barium, in which case a solution of oxalic acid must be employed as the precipitant.

  • Saltpetre may be used instead of salt, if it be wished to make the kipper hard.

  • A Pagenstecher’s spoon may be used instead of the vectis, and is to be preferred in cases where a small nucleus is suspected, since the latter may slip through the loop of the vectis and fail to be delivered.

  • In fairly roomy nostrils a stout polypus forceps can be used instead of the snare.

  • In the case of a hard substance, such as a piece of stone, coal, or a bead, blunt hooks may be used instead of sharp ones.

  • Those who are skilled in the use of this instrument can manipulate it so as to leave a good part of the attached margin of the turbinal, and the spokeshave can be used instead of the scissors for removal of the inferior margin.

  • Carbonate of soda has been proposed to be used instead of soap in scouring silk, but it has never come into use.

  • The cake is once more mashed up with water, and squeezed, when it yields a liquor which may be used instead of water for moistening fresh ground apples.

  • Glauber salts may be used instead of soda.

  • The following blue may be used instead of the solution of indigo.

  • Cheese or tomatoes may be used instead of meat.

  • Whites of eggs may be used instead of whipped cream.

  • Whipped cream can be used instead of frosting.

  • Fresh mushrooms turned in butter may be used instead of canned ones.

  • For etching half-tone plates on copper a saturated solution of perchloride of iron is used instead of the solution of nitric acid used for zinc etching.

  • A bar scale may be used instead of figures showing the dimensions of the individual beds.

  • Though this word can not be properly used in any but a bad sense, we sometimes see it used instead of noted, which may be used in either a good or a bad sense.

  • It may, however, be used instead of less with propriety in verse, and also, in some cases, in prose.

  • The beak is used instead of hands; and such is the flexibility of the vertebral column, that the bird is able to touch with its beak every part of its body.

  • A cheap penknife may be used instead of the scalpel; and the other instruments may be obtained of a cheaper construction--the whole not costing more than half the above-named amount.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "used instead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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