stand-in

Example Sentences

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Baseball is an easy stand-in for America, and vice versa.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

One man, first invited to serve as a stand-in for the narrator’s father, was asked instead to play the boy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

But, believe it or not, Ponomari's stand-in role might not have been the most surprising on the Wuthering Heights set.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“Isn’t that what you’re doing? Tell me this girl isn’t some stand-in for Mom. Some surrogate.”

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black