How to Use for instance in a Sentence

for instance

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  • West Nile, for instance, can take up to two weeks to show signs.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Take, for instance, this egg holder by the ceramic artist Four.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
  • After exiting the strait, for instance, one ship may pass oil to another.
    — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The piano, for instance, is not the same one that Stevie Nicks played in Coven.
    — Mekita Rivas, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Sellers and dealers are looking ahead, thinking about the costs of storage, for instance.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Two hundred years ago, for instance, people didn’t always vote with secret ballots in this country.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The first global Jo Malone flagship was built in Tokyo, for instance.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The boo hag Take, for instance, the boo hag, a being in Gullah Geechee folklore.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The Last Days of Gomorrah, for instance, was shot in shopping malls, and boasts a punk look.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Human toothpaste, for instance, may contain xylitol, which is toxic to dogs.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
  • At what point, for instance, does decaying plant tissue break down enough to become nutritious compost?
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2026
  • At this point in 2024, for instance, the year ranked as the second warmest, not the warmest, Labe says.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This might be producing answers that human evaluators are more likely to think are good, for instance.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • So like for instance, going back to the very beginning, Schrödinger’s approach with wave mechanics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Suppose for instance a batch of pants is closer to the spec for a different size than originally intended.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Sometimes, this is rewarded with the comfortingly mundane, a mash-up of bird and traffic sounds, for instance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • New York, for instance, requires you to display the highest total price a customer will pay, not a percentage.
    — Robert Day, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Darren Waller, who played his first game for the Panthers Sunday, was left impressed, for instance.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Metal Detox, for instance, was born from a request from them for a product that can help hair breakage due to chemical treatments.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Walmart China, for instance, has shrunk portion sizes to match households’ smaller appetites.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Emily Blunt’s comments, for instance, felt less like cruelty and more like fright, which is a different thing to be upset about.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • And that’s a pretty different kind of unanswerable question than, for instance, how the universe began.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Spiders, for instance, have muscles surrounding their venom glands, which contract and eject venom through hollow fangs.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026
  • In Cuba, for instance, the single format is dominant, and very few artists have dared to create a true concept album.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Josh Kerr, for instance, set a mile world record in July and revised his British 1,500m record in the process.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But there would be no run-of-the-mill rout, such as last year’s 51-14 win over Eastern Washington, for instance.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Kohl’s store at Kendall’s Palms at Town and Country strip center, for instance, has Claire’s merch.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Consider, for instance, what happened to the memorandum of understanding the two sides signed in June in hopes of stopping the war.
    — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Taking on debt, for instance, becomes far more palatable when the payments are affordable — and that can't happen without first being able to get a good job with a decent salary.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The Nobel Peace Prize, for instance, has gone to organizations rather than persons.
    — Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026

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