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

For example, this could raise another issue: Is long-term- care insurance worth getting for people who are in their 60s or 70s?

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

For example, it has also rolled out an internal, OpenAI-powered tool called “Spark” to help its workforce operate at peak productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

For example, China, Russia and South Korea report several thousand cases a year.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

For example, it can help crabs escape predators by making their direction harder to predict.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2026

For example, if the F sharps are written as G flats, or if the A's are sharp instead of natural, you have a different chord, not an inversion of the same chord.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Related Words

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