How to Use ersatz in a Sentence

ersatz

adjective

• Frank knew the real from the ersatz, and there wasn't any fooling him.
  — Town & Country, 13 June 2015
• But the point is taken: The new tool is ersatz and colorless.
  — Anthony W. Lee, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
• There’s not a trace of the ersatz substance in this brilliant play, which is worth its weight in the real thing.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The hikers walked up and down a small set of stairs, over and over again, documenting the ersatz trek on Zoom.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 22 Apr. 2020
• Attaching a fan to some logs to make an ersatz airboat.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
• Already, Portrait Milan is used as a short cut and even an ersatz park.
  — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• Once, in northern Afghanistan, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, a plane flew low and dropped ersatz Fig Newtons from the sky.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
• Devised as an ersatz Achilles edgy enough for gaming in the mid-00s, all anger and very little pathos, the one-time god and long-time god-killer is one of the biggest dicks in the medium.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• So there are cars in the parking lots and the occasional pedestrian to be seen walking the ersatz city streets.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 1 Apr. 2020
• Asians smile out of ersatz family photos in the model homes.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• Streep, Corden, Kidman and Rannells are game, but there’s an ersatz quality to the film.
  — Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Akin to antlers on end tables, the aesthetics of national parks are being used in an ersatz way, tailored to the rich.
  — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
• The value factor is an ersatz measure of gaps between price and value.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 18 Nov. 2020
• Then the structure was dismantled and rebuilt as an ersatz version of itself, at a quarter the size.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• The titular lighthouse is ersatz, built for the production on the coast of Nova Scotia.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2019
• At its heart, this is a book about big ideas exchanged over small cups of espresso—or in the case of occupied Paris, ersatz coffee brewed from burnt barley.
  — Nina Renata Aron, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
• Will his name even be mentioned at its ersatz convention?
  — Keith C. Burris, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• The old king whose rolling head got everything going wasn’t much of a monarch, just the type of ersatz ruler who crops up between the decline of one great kingdom and the rise of another.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Sweaters and jackets were given wings; denim and sweats sprouted ersatz 24-karat fringe; anoraks trailed lace like a wedding veil, or a royal train.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• The big tip-off is when the ersatz sleepers solicit gifts from viewers and, after the money is sent, nothing happens on-screen.
  — Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
• The 28-year-old artist was still a decade away from his Pop breakthrough: depicting Disney cartoons with ersatz benday dots.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Park’s response has been to make ersatz monuments like the ones on display at Plain Sight, a pop-up storefront gallery whose small shows are viewable only from the street.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• The metal is very flat in color, making the statue seem ersatz, plasticky.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• While the courts sorted out the crisis, Fortson knew that none of the ersatz governors could sign legislation without the Great Seal.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• It’s an electric sitar-laden payback anthem in the shape of a ersatz thriller — soulful, but only by component.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Why do grown men in powder blue, ersatz military uniforms parade down Broadway in the hot sun?
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Director John Badham captures both the grime of late ’70s New York and the ersatz glamour that dance clubs made available to everyone.
  — Noel Murray, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• For Wiener and those like her, socializing started to take on this ersatz quality as well.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• But Batiste’s sense of himself is trapped in ethnic expression that’s become ersatz.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• His love for off colors, iffy prints, and ersatz details recalls the provincial market stall.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024