All 8 Uses of
alternative
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- Or he could engage them, hoping to stall them while he looked for alternatives.†
Chpt 3 *alternatives = possibilities
- But he couldn't come up with any good alternatives.†
Chpt 12
- The way I see it, you don't have any good alternatives.†
Chpt 28
- The alternative was simply an impossibility.†
Chpt 5
- Not until or unless he was absolutely sure that there was no other alternative.†
Chpt 28
- Not really, now when you considered the alternative, which was broken bones and all.†
Chpt 33
- Ryan knew that Bethany's life (assuming that she was still breathing, a prospect that he clung to without regard for the alternative) would likely depend on his ability to disregard those debilitating emotions so that he could do what was needed to save her.†
Chpt 35
- The second was that his daughter had surely embraced Alvin Finch's game because she was blinded by his world and didn't see the alternative.†
Chpt 38
Definitions:
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(1)
(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility
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(2)
(alternative as in: alternative medicine) non-traditional or non-standard
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)