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

Over time, hundreds of statues and decorative motifs have been replaced, the originals ending up in an ersatz cemetery on the city’s outskirts.

From New York Times

By 1938, the coffee was mostly ersatz and gasoline increasingly scarce.

From Salon

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