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

Clare, for example, had strung the ceiling with rows and rows of twine, from which freshly cut mushrooms hung to dry.

From Literature

In California, for example, it’s usually four years from the date the financial abuse is discovered.

From MarketWatch

They were helpful ways to mark the changing seasons and the names tend to relate to significant events, for example the Hunter, the Harvest and the Flower Moons.

From BBC

Although the expense of, for example, 30,000 corporate Amazon employees is dwarfed by that company's AI spending plans, firms of this size will now take any opportunity to cut costs, Rohan says.

From BBC

It was when it reported on matters of which I had zero awareness: my HRV balance, for example, or my chronotype, albeit a wishy-washy “late morning,” a designation I plan to flip to early bird.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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