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

They ate rotting flesh, for example, and that was always difficult to watch at lunchtime.

From Literature

Among them for example is Shamima Begum, who joined IS as a teenager and whom the United Kingdom stripped of her British nationality.

From Barron's

Real GDP grew by 4.3% in the third quarter, for example.

From Barron's

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension, for example, was reportedly set to divest its holdings in the U.S. government bond market by the end of the month.

From MarketWatch

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension, for example, was reportedly set to divest its holdings in the U.S. government bond market by the end of the month.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

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