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

Some emails, for example, show officials were initially unsure about whether Lord Mandelson needed to undergo so-called developed vetting for his security clearance.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

"Before the legal change in 1994, the spent nuclear fuel was exported to, for example, Russia," she said.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

“The winners are doing extremely well, and the losers — or the companies that have been kind of perceived to be disrupted by AI, for example — have done extraordinarily bad,” Prentice said.

From MarketWatch • May 30, 2026

"But they help us manipulate photons very precisely to make them spin -- to twist them- in a specific direction, for example, up or down."

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

In comparison, the first runs of popular books in the 1850s, The Scarlet Letter or Moby-Dick for example, were less than 3,000 copies.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Related Words

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