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Six example sentences with ersatz, each labelled with its topic.
Wartime cooks brewed an ersatz from roasted acorns and chicory, and nobody pretended it tasted anything like coffee.
Cooking
Rationing pushed families toward an ersatz for nearly everything, from soap to the rubber in their shoe soles.
History
The sampled strings are an ersatz, and any listener who has sat near a real orchestra hears it immediately.
Music
Painted plaster served as an ersatz for marble in the chapel, and only a close look at the veins gives it away.
Art
The Victorian builders used cast concrete as an ersatz for carved stone, and the facade has weathered worse for it.
Architecture
The resort's canal is an ersatz of Venice, complete with gondolas, and visitors who know the real city sigh at it.
Travel
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