How to use "instead" in a sentence

Now I can rest my knees instead of standing up all the time.

So I got a ticket for Boston, instead of Mobile.

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse

Cooperation is a duty only so long as Government protects your honour, and non-cooperation is an equal duty when the Government, instead of protecting, robs you of your honour

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors

Finally he left the Gardens in the mad hope of seeing her in the street, but instead he met Enjolras, who invited him to a meal.

He was even more surprised when, instead of chasing him out of the room, Marius ran towards him and pressed several thousand-franc notes into his hand.

But Sylvia does not seem to hear and instead looks out at the dark loch.

Yes, a brave dog to protect you instead of just a lazy cat that lies in dangerous places.

So instead he just wants to get as far from the town called Needles as he can before the night comes.

But then he hears someone running behind him, and he screams instead.

So instead he stands on the edge

And he thinks that maybe next time they should just go to the cinema instead

He could cut and shuffle the deck like he had eight arms instead of two, and he could remember every card he saw in a split second and could use his fingers and little tricks to put the cards where he wanted them in the deck.

"So they're demanding the packing work instead."

Now Gran believed in encouraging people to enjoy the real world, instead of constantly escaping to the simulators or the ultranet

"Please message me," she finished instead

She tried to think of something else instead

Or your family instead, if you want."

Your parents could rent a sky apartment instead."

They've brought in a new design instead

"Mom, why can't they just use people instead of replacing them with robots and nanobots all the time?" Suddenly, Sala felt more angry than upset

She checked the energy center and the crowded walkways instead, but there was no sign of Wena

But instead he said, 'Well, I suppose you have a holiday this afternoon

Time should have put even more distance between her and the anguish, but instead the passing days were bringing her around full circle in her grief

Carol had been shiny-eyed and breathless because the high rollers had tipped her with green chips, as if they'd been winning instead of losing; for bringing them half a dozen drinks, she had collected twelve hundred dollars.

Her heart seemed to be pumping a refrigerant instead of blood, and an iciness radiated from it.

As he dried his hands on the towel, he said, "Why don't we forget about going out to dinner? Let me cook for you instead."

On Sunrise Mountain most of the big, expensive houses featured natural landscaping - which meant rocks, colored stones, and artfully arranged cacti instead of grass, shrubs, and trees - in acknowledgment that man's grip on this portion of the desert was new and perhaps tenuous

"But why would they want Kennebeck on a Vegas court instead of in Washington or New York or someplace more important?"

So if they can't open the grave and see for themselves what we've done to Danny Evans, what are they going to do instead? They're going to do the next best thing - talk to the person who was supposedly the last one to see the boy's corpse before it was sealed in the coffin

Although he was struggling to cast off the seizure of claustrophobia that had gripped him, was trying to pretend that the organic-looking ceiling wasn't pressing low over his head and that only open sky hung above him instead of thousands of tons of concrete and steel rock, his own panic attack concerned him less than what was happening beyond the viewport.

What I'm going to do is make an indirect approach to the plateau, moving with the wind instead of across it

Jack Morgan's strategy of flying with the land instead of over it was a smashing success

Its head is white instead of black, and it has a strange sort of leg.'

'Do you know,' said Griselda, 'I could have married a politician, a lord, a rich businessman, but instead I chose you? Didn't that surprise you?'

There is a path from Old Hall, where she lives, to our garden gate, so most people coming from there come to the study window instead of going along the road to the front door.

'Well, I did come to ask you if you would take the service tonight instead of me.'

After breakfast, instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common

And instead of rushing around blindly, we've got to change to suit the new situation

'Why were you walking around on the common,' I asked, 'instead of being here?'

So, this man must like his pipe very much if he prefers to mend it instead of buying a new one with the same money.'

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'

And then, instead of leaving ten thousand pounds to his sister directly, he left the money to Laura