İşe gitmek yerine bütün gün evde kaldım.
- I stayed at home all day instead of going to work.
Aptal oğlumun ne yaptığını biliyor musun? Şimdi bile o üniversiteden mezun olup iş bulmak yerine tüm zamanını pachinko oynayarak geçiriyor.
- You know what my idiot son's doing? Even now he's graduated from university he spends all his time playing pachinko instead of getting a job.
Onun yerine ablası onlarla gitti.
- Instead of her, her sister went with them.
Tom onun yerine Mary'nin terfi alması gerçeğine kızdı.
- Tom resented the fact that Mary got the promotion instead of him.
Bir sandalye yerine lütfen bu ahşap kutuyu kullan.
- Please use this wooden box in place of a chair.
Paul babasının yerine partiye gitti.
- Paul went to the party in place of his father.
He walked to school instead of taking the car.
Rather than cutting down on cigarettes, why don't you just give them up?
- Instead of cutting down on cigarettes, why don't you just give them up?
... used Google Maps instead of an old guidebook. ...
... for "Obamacare" instead of fighting for jobs for the American people. ...