All 9 Uses of
alternative
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Or fiddle around--second alternative--let the fires die slowly, arrange for what's called Serious Talks.†
Chpt 1
- I can see no reasonable alternative.†
Chpt 5
- Are they setting up an alternative?†
Chpt 7
- He could get a credential, shuck the salary--a piddling salary anyhow, all things considered--and shuck the house in Kenmore--yes, no alternative to that--but eventually teachers could afford to buy houses too.†
Chpt 8
- "We've exhausted every honorable alternative, isn't that so?"†
Chpt 13
- You had no alternatives, in that case.†
Chpt 15 *
- Even indecision is an act, after all: a choice not to act in either of two alternative directions.†
Chpt 15
- It was his only possible alternative to killing them, yes, assuming the course he'd embarked on.†
Chpt 20
- But though very little is more pleasurable than a marijuana buzz, it is a curious fact of experience that the higher one goes, the more ardently one longs for brown sugar or, alternatively, peanut butter.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility