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How to use lieu in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Lieu means a place or stead. Example: “They gave him a cash award, in lieu of the promised prize package.”

More sentences with lieu

  • They gave him a cash award, in lieu of the promised prize package.From the entry in lieu of
  • "By deleting in placitum the amount of 7c and inserting in lieu thereof the amount of 9c."From the entry placitum
  • In lieu of recent events, more caution is needed.From the entry in lieu of
  • A consummate showwoman, she led the community theater in Barringtonville for many years. In lieu of flowers, donations to the theater may be made in her honor.From the entry showwoman
  • In addition to or in lieu of human donors, some sanguinarian vampires consume animal blood.2009, Joseph Laycock, Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism, page 9. From the entry sanguinarian
  • Put otherwise: his figures might be said to express expression in lieu of any conventionalized emotion.2009, “Introduction”, in Stanley Sadie, editor, The Grove Book of Operas, page xv. From the entry gesturation
  • S. flag that ornaments the grounds in lieu of a pennant.1913 August 10, Jerry Mack, “Knell of Day Terminates Game in the Ninth With No Decision; Umpire Sullivan Calls Off Fray With Score Even Up…. From the entry hecticity
  • Some "knappers" still employ time-candles in lieu of clocks and watches, wherewith to reckon the working hours.1906, H.G. Archer, “The Oldest Industry In England”, in The Wide World Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Adventure…. From the entry time candle
  • Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51. From the entry shabbos
  • In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182. From the entry hook
  • The MBA with a sport management specialization should be considered as a second option in lieu of the joint degree.2012, Glenn M. Wong, The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry specialization
  • He had navigated the party as far as Ceylon using a hydrographic quintant in lieu of a magnetic compass.1978, Ian Trenowden, Operations Most Secret, London: William Kimber, page 62. From the entry quintant
  • And over there are some elderly ones with diamonds on their chests in lieu of the other things.1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 342. From the entry yen
  • In the next year the Friedrichsdor was allowed in lieu of silver in payments at the same rate.1927, Karl Helfferich, Theodor Emanuel Gregory, Money, volume 1, page 126. From the entry Friedrichsdor
  • In lieu of preparental hand-wringing, Ms.2015 August 28, John Leland, “Superiority Burger, a Vegetarian Ode to White Castle in the East Village”, in New York Times. From the entry preparental
  • Most men, jewelers find, move their first ring to their right hand in lieu of the stacking that is traditional for most women.2014 February 14, Samantha Zabell, “The Rise of the Man-gagement Ring”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mangagement ring
  • There was surely another creature standing guard inside, in lieu of the manticora Bink had known: the one at the Anniversary party.2002, Piers Anthony, Source of Magic, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry manticora
  • RL from AI Feedback (RLAIF), introduced by Bai et al., offers a promising alternative that leverages a powerful off-the-shelf LLM to generate preferences in lieu of human annotators.2023, “RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback”, in Arxiv. From the entry RLAIF
  • This encourages staff and students to use the other side of the GOOS paper for quick notes, quizzes, etc. in lieu of reaching for a fresh piece.2020, Lindsay Bunce, Nancy McGee, Christina Phillips-MacNeil, “Ontario EcoSchools: A Framework for Environmental Learning and Action in…. From the entry goos
  • Reflecting a slightly modified version of the hero narrative, Eric rescues Ariel from Ursula and concomitantly saves the merworld from a diabolical female in lieu of a male villain.2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry merworld
  • Landlords demanded a large lump-sum payment in lieu of the low monthly rent, and this also made it very difficult for refugees without means to rent houses in the city.2010, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, chapter 2, in The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries…. From the entry pagri

Meaning of lieu

  1. noun A place or stead.

Full definition of lieu

Questions about lieu in a sentence

How do you use lieu in a sentence?
Lieu is used as a noun. For example: “They gave him a cash award, in lieu of the promised prize package.”
What is a short sentence with lieu?
“In lieu of preparental hand-wringing, Ms.”
What does lieu mean?
Lieu means a place or stead.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lieu (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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