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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We have instanced the case of Saul's conversion as exceptionally thorough and immediate.
From Love's Final Victory by Horatio
Kemble might have instanced the way in which one and the same hero reappears in the pages of Saxo Grammaticus, with somewhat different parentage or surroundings, as if he were a quite different person.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
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 Horace Greeley
I should be glad if he would give his reasons for adhering to his original doctrine in the face of such facts as those I have instanced.
From Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by George Bell
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
