ersatz

Example Sentences

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Americans have voted with our wallets in favor of generic cheese by purchasing more ersatz domestic “gruyere” than we buy of the authentic Swiss stuff.

From Washington Post

Here is ersatz Whitman: “O lands! O lands! to be cruise-faring, to be sealanding! / To go on visiting Niagara, to go on, to go on!”

From Washington Post

In the 17th century, repeated betrayals drove Ukraine into the arms of an ersatz ally, the Prince of Muscovy, who promptly proclaimed Ukraine was a subject, not an ally.

From Seattle Times

“Who wants a piece of toast?” he shouts, handing out ersatz slices of bread from a set of plastic play food.

From Seattle Times

The symphony’s spirituals, and its bits and pieces of Dvorák, were just that, not an ersatz “New World.”

From Los Angeles Times