Examples of using "Sijaan" in a sentence and their english translations:
Instead...
[Pepe] Instead of only hiding behind police measures,
I learned French instead of German.
I chose these over the shoes.
Can we speak French instead?
Could we speak French instead?
Instead, I could help you out.
Try this bra on instead.
Either you or I must go in his place.
or making one or two million-dollar cars.
the investigation shifted from accidental death to homicide.
Tom sent an email to his boss instead of his girlfriend.
Thermal pits on his snout detect heat, instead of light.
She decided to drink water instead of soft drinks in order to lose weight.
I stayed home all day instead of going to work.
Instead, she feels her world through a network of trip wires.
I can't have a child so I bought a rabbit instead.
Tom called Mary instead of John.
- I may give up soon and just nap instead.
- Maybe I'll just give up soon and take a nap instead.
He was so busy that he sent his son instead of going himself.
Instead of waiting for a contract, we can handle it over the phone.
Why did you tear the cloth instead of cutting it with scissors?
I don't feel like going to the movies. Let's take a walk instead.
Instead of fixing the problem, the company fired the whistle-blower.
Rather than buy vegetables at the grocery store, Mary is growing her own in her backyard.
- I may give up soon and just nap instead.
- Maybe I'll just give up soon and take a nap instead.
I'd rather skip school and play video games.
I stayed in bed all day instead of going to work.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
You'd better go find a job instead of fucking around.
Half of them said that the proposed law hurts the freedom of speech instead of strengthening it.
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We dreamed of five thousand subscribers but instead succeeded with a mere tenth of this number.
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In August 2014 the Swedish Building Workers' Union decided that the gender-neutral pronoun "hen" ("he or she, or neither he nor she") should be used instead of "han" ("he") in forthcoming versions of its by-laws.
The idea of God would be more interesting if instead of having created humans he had found them.
She's vegetarian, so she ate tofu instead of turkey.
Tom was sick and stayed home from school.
"What will trigonometric functions ever do for me in the future?!" "If you have time to whine, why don't get your housework done quickly instead?!"
Consider what we do to our children. We do not say to them: 'Some people think the earth is round, and others think it is flat; when you grow up, you can, if you like, examine the evidence and form your own conclusion.' Instead of this we say: 'The earth is round.' By the time our children are old enough to examine the evidence, our propaganda has closed their minds...
What harm would it do if I were to go into the garden for a short time and enjoy myself among the trees and flowers, and the singing birds and fluttering butterflies and humming insects, and look at the dew-drops hiding from the sunbeams in the hearts of the roses and lilies, and wander about in the sunshine, instead of remaining all day in this room?
At this very instant the young fairy came from behind the curtains and said these words in a loud voice:— "Assure yourselves, O King and Queen, that your daughter shall not die of this disaster. It is true, I have no power to undo entirely what my elder has done. The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a deep sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the end of which a king's son shall come and awake her."