How to Use for instance in a Sentence

for instance

noun

• Let me give you a for instance.
• So, for instance, the Rosh Hashanah (the new year) doesn’t always fall on Jan. 1.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Tyreek Hill, for instance, is on the books for $31 million next year.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• Obama, for instance, did so much with the garden and for kids.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2023
• The gilded crown on the top, for instance, was carved from oak that was found on the HMS Victory.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• And though the details are obscured—the scene of the crime is a pet shop, for instance—the reference is plain.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• The ones down the street, for instance, are tiny bungalows with taupe siding, white trim and gabled roofs.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The outer pods in the lower front bumper, for instance, each contain a mass of logos.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
• None of this is normal—for instance, on a Pixel, every app runs at the max frame rate.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
• The film isn’t perfect: What ends up happening to Hawa, for instance, is a bit too tidy.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023
• Ford, for instance, has lowered the price of the Mustang Mach-E by an average of $4,500 per car.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• There’s nothing wrong with a printer as a piece of hardware, for instance.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Take, for instance, the property’s exclusive art pieces, some of which hang from the ceiling in the lobby.
  — Carine Lavache, ELLE, 21 July 2023
• Maiwenn’s movie, for instance, is about the place of women in politics.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• Some of last year’s shelves will be replaced by circus wagons this year, for instance.
  — Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• Auburn, for instance, offered sales and fuel tax breaks as part an agreement voted on in 2021 to land a Buc-ee’s.
  — John Sharp, al, 10 Apr. 2023
• Some teams with engineers, for instance, are encouraged to come in three days a week.
  — Susie Gharib, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Take, for instance, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in Terminator 2 where Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face is swapped onto the body of a stuntman.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 21 July 2023
• Europe, for instance, had its second-warmest year on record in 2022.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Urgiles, for instance, uses deadlines to change up the dynamic.
  — Austin Williams, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
• In northwest Grand Rapids, for instance, 93 percent of children have been released to adults who are not their parents.
  — Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• Their behavior seems markedly different from that of the Proud Boys or QAnon, for instance.
  — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• There’s no hero cop, for instance, who shows the crew a righteous path away from property destruction.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• The company doesn’t need a vast network of US warehouses, for instance.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• If your work involves a cash register or keyboard, for instance, hit the keys softly.
  — Kristin Karim, M.d., Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Lee’s kimchi smash burger, for instance, is a take on a Big Mac, which was his favorite burger growing up.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
• So the kinds of materials that many people rely on to document the lives of people in the 1800s, for instance, are rarely available.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• The nifty sofa, for instance, has a backrest that can be shifted on demand to face either the dining table or the folding terrace near the stern.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2023
• On Spotify, for instance, there are only 20 songs available to stream that include Ice on them.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024