A teacher may use it when she walks into a room where the students are playing and talking, instead of studying.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

- She's come there hoping to escape the network of symbols that she has seen and instead she's immersed with a new network of them.

她为了逃避，所见到的符号网络,各种驿车号而来，不过她又被一种，all，those，post，horns—,取而代之的网络所沉浸。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Instead,one of them gets kidnapped or has to go off to war or captured by pirates, and she's taken off by pirates and sold into slavery, and she goes all the way around the Mediterranean, and the young man follows her around the Mediterranean in chapter after chapter after chapter.

相反，其中一人会被绑架,或者参军打仗，或者被海盗俘虏，女方被海盗掳走，卖作奴隶，她会一路在地中海四处转辗，男方会追随她走遍地中海,就这样一章又一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Instead,she said people with mental disabilities needed to be treated as useful citizens and given special education and training.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Instead,she urges them to think about the one thing that most concerns them, and to deal with it.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But instead of going to prison, she was permitted to seek treatment to end her dependence on drugs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She says incidents involving nationals instead of foreigners do not get the same level of attention.

VOA: special.2010.08.16

She chose to explore the unusual sides of society instead of accepting common subjects to photograph.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Instead, he told her she could be successful by singing in concert theaters.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Instead of resting, she met with representatives of the International Red Cross.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Instead of looking at her subjects, she made them look at her.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Instead,she went to London to study at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital.

VOA: special.2010.09.12

Instead,She urges them to create better ways to business.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

So,instead of dancing, she sang a song called "Judy."

VOA: special.2010.07.04

So she performed as a concert artist instead.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Instead,she created her own program of study.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

So she sailed for North Africa instead.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Instead,she was a fierce, black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

After a recent car accident she said she automatically dialed Italy's 118 distress code instead of America's 911.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

But instead of taking her son to college with her, she left him with her mother in Philadelphia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

When the time came, her parents objected. They only relented when Alexei said that she would instead become a police officer in a dangerous neighborhood.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Instead,the big item she wants is for future generations to get an education.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28