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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I will instance, in our own language, the Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
To show you how little ‘kindly’ meant once benignant, as it means now, I will instance an employment of it from Sir Thomas More’s Life of Richard the Third.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
You will instance to me discord in the family.
From The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal by Miriam S. Knight
If any one will instance a dozen lost battles in which the side beaten attacked in separate converging columns, we can instance a dozen that have been gained in which the same order was adopted.
From On War — Volume 1 by Colonel J. J. Graham
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 John Ruskin
