instance
noun
a case or occurrence of anything.
will instance
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future tenseof instance.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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But number is not so important as the quality and frequency of the words involved, so I will instance one class in detail, namely the words in which aw and or are confused.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
I will instance three subjects of universal importance.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
Charles, indeed, who was preaching when I entered, can't read; but both have far too much reverence to use sacred words in their games, as the sermons themselves will instance.
From The Vicar's Daughter by MacDonald, George
I will instance in some, both which I know in my own experience, and which I hear the people daily complaining of and groaning under, looking upon you and waiting for deliverance.
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry
I will instance, in our own language, the Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
