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Example sentences for: stand-in

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The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.
But Walcott also wants an outsider's view on this exalted material, and he finds it in the 19 th -century English peasant-poet John Clare, whom he makes into a stand-in for himself.
In MoMA's beautiful of 1932, the little dog keeping vigil seems like a stand-in for Bonnard.
Is it Madden who's attacking Varga's Hungarian maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), or is Madden a stand-in for Harry?
Gilbert could be a stand-in for Leigh himself--a haughty, ill-humored man with an obsession for tiny details and a glowering dedication to process.