ersatz

Example Sentences

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Those smoke-stained mirrors, that tin ceiling, the drapery and light fixtures are in fact set-dressed — ersatz!

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The short sequence, created by Seedance -- the AI generation model developed by TikTok's parent company, Bytedance -- shows an ersatz fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Tiny chairs dangle on Christmas trees beside ersatz Heinz pickles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The notion of swapping out a great prosciutto with an ersatz version is just never going to happen for me.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024

One such ersatz cattleguard adorned the north-south highway a few hundred yards below Ladd Devine’s Miracle Valley development sign.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols