Usage examples (33)

• A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.
• Cooperation on what we call substance, that is the resolution of the remaining disarmament issues, in my view, has been less good.
• What, he asks me in substance, is the main problem of writers in general, and of writers who know their time is short in particular?
• But what the film lacks in substance is compensated for via sheer propulsiveness, staggering inventiveness, and mind-boggling visuals.