for-instance

[ fer-in-stuhns ]

noun

1. an instance or example:

   Give me a for-instance of what you mean.

Example Sentences

There’s a heavily detailed queue that features newspaper clippings and knick-knacks that give us insight into Tiana’s business and life — we learn, for instance, her last name is Rogers — but ultimately this is a journey about finding musicians in the bayou for a giant Mardi Gras bash.

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Some faculty and students, for instance, want to eliminate police from campus entirely and use trained civilian mediators instead to address problems — using outside law enforcement to handle serious crimes.

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So, if a tourist wished to visit on Feb. 17, for instance, that day’s reservations would become available Feb. 15 at 8 a.m.

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Mexican immigrant mothers and their American-born children — seeking basic healthcare at Los Angeles County General Hospital, for instance — were scapegoated as undesirable and deported directly from the hospital.

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Baroque murders aside, and a modicum of genre clichés — an aggressive reporter, for instance, getting in our heroes’ way — it’s rooted in humans being human, and as absurd as everything is to do with Ramsay, the detectives, their families and friends live in a nicely sketched community in a well-drawn, relatively real world.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• as
• e.g.
• for instance
• such as
• thus