instance
noun
a case or occurrence of anything.
have instanced
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present perfectof instance.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic “yeri” are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
We have instanced this economically-constructed line, because we have seen it in operation, and can place reliance on the facts connected with its financial affairs.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
The price of thirty yards plain, good ingrain carpet, at $1.50 per yard, would be forty-five dollars; the difference between forty-five and fifteen dollars would furnish a room with pictures such as we have instanced.
From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther
I do not hold that the remarkably rich soils I have instanced needed fertilizing when first plowed; I will presume that they did not.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace
We have instanced the horse, who endowed with the memory of locality, starts when passing by the same spot where he had started before.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
