alternative

In a sentence

Six example sentences with alternative, each labelled with its topic.

• The panel offered one alternative to a full trial, and both sides signed the mediation agreement before the deadline.

  Law

• With eight seconds left the only alternative to a contested three was a long pass nobody had practiced.

  Basketball

• Every alternative on the table cost the pension fund something, and the trustees spent four hours choosing the least painful one.

  Finance

• The only alternative to the overnight bus was a flight costing three times as much, so we took the bus.

  Travel

• The surgeon laid out one alternative to the operation, a brace worn for a year, and let the family decide.

  Medicine

• Nearly out of cash, the founders saw one alternative to closing: sell the product to their biggest customer.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains alternative. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• approach
• minority
• registration
• evident
• security
• volunteer
• abandon
• dramatic
• normally
• generate
• inevitable
• equipment