for instance

noun

fə-ˈrin(t)-stənts 

ˈfrin(t)-

: example

I'll give you a for instance.

Examples of for instance in a Sentence

Let me give you a for instance.

Recent Examples on the Web

Where he’s supposed to be, for instance, tagging a motion on a play, so the receiver’s on the left, not the right. —Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025

But dismissing their future entirely ignores the high esteem in which they are held in many countries outside the West — in the Philippines, for instance, where pageantry has a near-national-sport status. —Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025

AlphaFold 3, for instance, predicts not just protein structures but several critical aspects of how proteins bind with one another and with small molecules. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025

Would the Americans really sacrifice New York City to drop bombs on Moscow because the Soviets had overrun West Berlin, for instance? —Big Think, 27 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above