How to use "alternate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "alternate" in popular movie and book plots

  • Back-tracking, he finds the alternate route also cut off.  - The Quiet Earth
  • She begins by talking about the concept of a parallel universe and how easy it is to slip into one, comparing insanity to an alternate world.  - Girl, Interrupted
  • The first six parts of the series take place within a single continuity, while parts 7 and 8 take place in an alternate continuity.  - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • Neither Bolie nor Henry have any memory of the alternate outcome.  - The Big Tall Wish
  • Cash explains that Jack is experiencing a glimpse of an alternate universe in order to learn a lesson.  - The Family Man
  • The Smithy Gang is led by Smithy, a robotic blacksmith from an alternate dimension with aspirations of world domination.  - Super Mario RPG
  • The bowl explains audibly that the dolphins, aware of the planet's coming destruction, left Earth for an alternate dimension.  - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  • Odetta is completely unaware that she has an alternate personality; a violent, predatory woman named Detta Walker.  - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
  • Reporter Tricia McMillan is an alternate version of Trillian living on Earth who never took Zaphod Beeblebrox's offer to travel in space.  - Mostly Harmless
  • Several of the group speculate that the final explosion somehow forced them into an alternate dimension.  - Farnham's Freehold
  • Clark makes radio contact with two of the SHOWBOAT teams, ordering them to alternate pickup points to await extraction.  - Clear and Present Danger
  • Once again, they end up in 1990, but in an alternate future to that of the Ice Box.  - Timeslip
  • The 2015 Blu-ray release offers the option to watch the film with an alternate ending.  - Vanilla Sky
  • Lara then finds herself in a strange alternate existence facing her father Lord Richard Croft (Jon Voight).  - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  • They enlist the help of locals Jake and Bobby Joe to guide them along an alternate trail to the cabin.  - Evil Dead II
  • One day, he slips into an alternate world in which he drowned ten years before.  - Chrono Cross

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