Example sentences for: ersatz

How can you use “ersatz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There, some of the world's most pretentious and absurd architecture beckons visitors from around the world to see such sights as in-house acrobats or an art museum, a battle of full-size pirate ships, or to tour an ersatz Paris, Egypt or other improbable replication.

  • Simulated shootings in schools in Florida and Pennsylvania, for instance, have featured SWAT teams, helicopters, ersatz pipe bombs, and drama students sporting fake wounds.

  • Many, though, find the album as irritating as Camp's goofy on-screen presence and call it "ersatz rock--all guns and poses" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). (Find out more about Jesse here.)

  • People of good will cannot begrudge those in genuine need, but the V pill is on its way to becoming a recreational drug, thereby creating ersatz libido, and thereby creating God only knows what problems.

  • The paper's tone was more funeral dirge than rallying cry: "One of the more regrettable consumer fads of the 1990s has been the invasion of ersatz American-style coffee bars, all stainless steel and froth and cool.


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