for example

Idioms  

1. Also, for instance. As an illustration of something, as in Dress casually, in blue jeans, for example, or This program has problems—for instance, it's hard to retrieve lost data. The first expression, which dates from the late 1500s, is used throughout this book to illustrate how an idiom is used. The variant dates from the mid-1600s.

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Example Sentences

Saying you can’t afford something when that isn’t true, for example, can unnecessarily harm a child’s relationship with money in the long-term.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

In Kern County, for example, 3,303 mail-in ballots — or 1.95% of returned mail-in ballots — were not counted in the 2025 special election because they arrived too late.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

It did so, nominating thousands of ingredients, including, for example, purified water and asparagus.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Infrastructure refers to the likes of physical servers and virtual machines, while assets refers, for example, to laptops, printers, network equipment and software.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

How did you finish a reed mat, for example?

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Related Words

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