Sentence examples of "instead of" in English
I got my mother's goat when I gave her the salt instead of the sugar.
Ma mère s'est mise en colère quand je lui ai donné le sel à la place du sucre.
I spent yesterday reading instead of going out.
J'ai passé la journée d'hier à lire au lieu de sortir.
Some systems, such as Burroughs B5500, do not use paging to implement virtual memory. Instead, they use segmentation, that divide virtual address spaces into variable-length segments. A virtual address consists of a segment number and an offset within the segment.
Certains systèmes, comme le Burroughs B5500, n'utilisent pas la pagination pour implémenter la mémoire virtuelle. À la place, ils se servent de la segmentation, qui divise l'espace d'adressage en segment de différentes tailles. Une adresse virtuelle se compose alors d'un numéro de segment et d'un déplacement au sein de ce segment.
He stayed at home all day instead of going out.
Il resta à la maison toute la journée au lieu de sortir.
Instead of taking notes, I spent the whole class doodling.
Au lieu de prendre des notes, j'ai passé tout le cours à griffonner.
You might have added it instead of writing it in comments.
Tu aurais pu l'ajouter au lieu de l'écrire en commentaires.
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