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Example sentences for: ersatz

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

I didn't like the way he sold out his own legacy of decent, moderate Republicanism for an ersatz, anti-government populism.
It was Sinatra's Pack's bad-boy behavior the late-'90s ersatz swells are celebrating, not the fine tailoring on his three-button suits.
By now, an entire generation of American cigar smokers has paid the price of freedom by buying overpriced ersatz Havanas made in the Dominican Republic or Honduras from imitation Cuban tobacco.
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.
Rod Dreher of the New York Post is scathing, dismissing it as "ooey-gooey schmoopie slop" and "ersatz romantic tapioca" and comparing the personality of Kilmer's character to that of Snuggles the fabric-softener bear.