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

“Many skill sets from the automotive industry—for example in systems engineering, software, or electronics—are an excellent match for the technologies we develop.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"One can for example add functional groups on the surface or substitute specific nitrogen or carbon atoms with oxygen or phosphorus atoms."

From Science Daily

Anyone receiving means-tested benefits, for example universal credit, can have them reduced when moving in with a partner because you are treated as a household - meaning incomes, savings and circumstances are considered together.

From BBC

In the Permian basin of New Mexico and west Texas, for example, producers can more quickly and economically ramp up extraction of light crude oil trapped in shale rock.

From Los Angeles Times

Noting that its waters are ice-free thanks to the Gulf Stream, the Norwegian consultancy Rystad Energy has, for example, suggested excluding the Barents Sea from the EU's definition of the Arctic.

From Barron's

Related Words

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