Example sentences for: stand-in

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

  • Bunt is named for an elder brother who died in infancy, and both Betty and Bunt seem to feel that he is only a stand-in for his predecessor.

  • As opposed to the commonly cited figure of total book sales, this number is a reasonable stand-in for the question of how many Americans are reading nonpulp new novels.

  • Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.

  • Is it Madden who's attacking Varga's Hungarian maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), or is Madden a stand-in for Harry?

  • Heep is, however, a fine stand-in for the House Majority Whip, Tom DeLay of Texas.


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