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

So when he enacts a perilous plan to achieve an ersatz independence, his behavior is all the more shocking.

From New York Times

At times, the central bank’s eastern branch, in Benghazi, was using ersatz Libyan dinars printed in Russia.

From New York Times

RIP, Ron Popeil, maestro of the late-night infomercial, Edison of the ersatz, who died July 28 in Los Angeles at 86.

From Washington Post