How to Use make an example of in a Sentence

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• Sometimes you’re made an example of.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
• The news media is waiting to make an example of those who make a mistake.
  — Laura Clayton McDonnell, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The more powerful an entity is, the more they must be made an example of.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
• Why not make an example of a few of these foreign career criminals?
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
• Jettisoning just a couple of thousand, to make an example of them, may be enough.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024
• For that to happen, regulators will have to make an example of Clearview.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• Nevertheless, Key took this as his chance to make an example of abolitionism once and for all.
  — Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• Tesla watchers reason that, on the warpath, Musk decided to make an example of her and everyone who worked for her.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 May 2024
• His friends said the 18-year-old made a mistake, officials wanted to make an example of him and the panic that was created was overblown.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• Phillips decided to try to make an example of Armenta as a racist by posting a picture that showed only the half of his face that was painted black.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• The 13-year sentence is longer than that and may point to aggravating factors or a decision by the court to make an example of a celebrity.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
• The best way to deter China from invading Taiwan is to make an example of Russia in Ukraine.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Yet, here was a woman who did everything possible to give her children a competitive advantage, and she was paraded around and made an example of.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• The police, hoping to make an example of him, charged Fukui with violating the Cannabis Control Law.
  — Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• For global investors, the key question is whether regulators will be content to make an example of Ant and Ma, or intend to go after other tech giants as well.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2021
• Tightening its grip on Hong Kong, China is determined to make an example of the prodemocracy media tycoon.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Sokoto State government must immediately apprehend them and make an example of them.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 13 May 2022
• Legal analysts say the court will want to make an example of Bolsonaro to deter future politicians from alleging electoral fraud without evidence.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Following her ouster, Comey warned that she was being made an example of in order to quell potential dissent within the DOJ.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
• Robinson disputes the university's investigation process and believes he's being made an example of.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Aug. 2025
• An ambitious prosecutor is keen to make an example of Covington, leading to a fiery battle worthy of an Ace Attorney game.
  — Jef Rouner, Chron, 14 Sep. 2024
• Democrats insisted the administration was trying to make an example of Dugan to blunt judicial opposition to the operation.
  — Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
• Bezos fears that the government might seek to make an example of Amazon rather than its tech rivals such as Google and Microsoft, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2025
• The most embarrassing thing for the USA is that Garcia clearly was out to make an example of the Americans after all the pregame controversy.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• But the Balinese authorities appear ready to make an example of Russians and Ukrainians amid rising public debate over perceptions of their conduct.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• Analysts are questioning whether the Chinese government can make an example of Evergrande while also avoiding a crash landing for housing prices that would ricochet through the economy.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• During the trial, the prosecutor (Michel Fau) exhorts the all-male jury to make an example of Madeleine for the world’s murderous females, who apparently are everywhere, ready to pounce.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The union also argued that the league showed more grace to white players (using Roethlisberger as an example) while handing Watson, who is Black, an unprecedented punishment to make an example of him.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• There is a feeling throughout the organization that the NHL chose to make an example of Rust after his hit to the head of the Vancouver Canucks’ Brock Boeser.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Advocates worry that the conservative government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to make an example of the family to deter other would-be migrants.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021