for-instance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Over the years, I’d hear from people insisting that I write about, as a for-instance, their uncollected trash or unfilled pothole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
I'll give you a for-instance: People were walking in and out of the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2015
I was given the for-instance of a paper clip making software that turns the whole of America, including the people, into paper clips.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2014
When the conversation shifts from what a limited choice there is among presidential candidates, Walter Cronkite is one of the names that always turn up as for-instance alternatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Let's take another for-instance," he said savagely, in what he thought was a caricature of the Manelli voice.
From Supermind by Laurence M. Janifer
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