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"Alternative" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Is there no alternative to what you propose?
We are faced with the alternative of resistance or slavery.
We have the alternative of going or staying.
We had no alternative but to fight.
We have the alternative of death and submission.
The alternative possibilities are neutrality or war.
If you wish us to reserve an alternative room, please let us know immediately.
Is there no alternative to your method?
We agreed that there was no other alternative.
The alternative possibilities were resistance and flight.
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an alternative proposition
Reason would seem to dictate that it was an alternative offer,—either to receive $15,000 if the grantor perform the condition or $12,000 if he did not perform the condition.
Who is right, Augusto or Unamuno? In general critics have seen this confrontation as offering an alternative choice: either we are free or we are predetermined.
alternative conjunctions like or
alternative medicine; alternative lifestyle; alternative rock
He [the Sun] it is that giveth light to all things, and riddeth them from darkneſſe : hee hideth the other ſtarres, and ſheweth them againe : he ordereth the ſeaſons in their alternative courſe : he tempereth the yeere, ariſing ever freſh and new againe, for the benefite and good of the world.
“The cloister or a betrothed husband?” I echoed—“Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?”
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
Disability activists discourage the use of the words "crazy" and "insane" due to their negative connections to mental health, suggesting alternatives such as "wild", "silly", or "out of this world", which do not relate to mental health.
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