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How to use in lieu in a sentence

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Though it wasn't compulsory, everyone got a paid three-week holiday or bank holiday double time and days in lieu.
So, in lieu of my own words, let me direct you instead to some recent offerings from my fellow citizens.
The donations were made in lieu of presents on the occasion of her 70th birthday.
Lots of short sentences and interesting punctuation in lieu of actually having anything remotely engaging to say.
He doesn't say how much the mostly unspecified taxes he calls for in lieu of the bonds would cost.
The pipers, in lieu of being able to play in the stadium, are going to set up and play outside the venue before the match.
The Judge added that he was recommending 120 hours in lieu of two months imprisonment.
So in lieu of a proper beginning here are a few things which I might have arranged more coherently into a beginning if I had the skill.
This is in lieu of not being able to attend his wake in Cape Town, which I am sure will be a well-attended one.
My understanding is that insurers will pay for reconstruction but will not just pay out a cheque in lieu of same.
He can lawfully perform service in the hospitals of the Army in lieu of bearing arms.
Wage payments were three months in arrears, and some officers had received potatoes in lieu of pay.
An equivalent amount of normal saline was added to control tubes in lieu of enzyme solution and processed similarly.
I'm not going to complain too loudly about an attractive female character being too hot on screen in lieu of her being scary.
In Japan, Korea, and China, it is used extensively in lieu of saccharine and aspartame.
Pittsburgh officials must tap tax-exempt organizations for more money in lieu of taxes.
It is recommended that molasses or honey be used as sweetening agents in lieu of sugar.
There, their torches were placed in the ground around the sacred circle, often in lieu of the balefires.
The newsletter, released last week, showed this was the total amount of donations given to the hospice in lieu of gifts to the couple.
The sense of moral superiority afforded by this point of view was perhaps in lieu of economic, educational, and social opportunities.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But there is a good deal of substitute perique sold in lieu of the genuine kind.
He brought these offerings in lieu of baby talk, which he could never master.
The grinning death's head seal was appended in lieu of a signature, as before.
The owner of every knight's fee was to pay a sum of money known as scutage in lieu of service.
When especial attention is called to a word the single quote-marks are used in lieu of the old way of double quotes or italic.
If no second recurve is present, an obstruction at right angles to the inner line of flow is acceptable in lieu of it.
Regular ballets of action now take place, in lieu of the pas de deux, and pas seul, of one or two principal dancers.
Because we must act in the photoplay, you see, in lieu of other performers.
This was his in lieu of the money which he would have earned if they had killed Lanning on the spot.
In a pathetic sort of way, she mothered Christine in lieu of her own daughter.
In the course of a few weeks O'Iwa was living in one room, furnished with three tatami in lieu of the usual twelve in number.
Then again, what say you to Bavaria, in lieu of the silesia lost?
This is then properly transferred to us, in lieu of our cheque.
They were of various sizes and shapes, but enough were of handy dimensions for use as ammunition in lieu of my precious arrows.
A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
Ramada Inn of Jacksonville recovered the project in December 1999 in a deed in lieu of foreclosure transaction with Jacksonville Hospitality Inc.
Used in coughs as an anodyne and demulcent, in lieu of opium lozenges.
Cattle are reported to have sometimes eaten them in lieu of salt hay.
Daylight's friendships, in lieu of anything closer, were drinking friendships and roistering friendships.
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