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Definition of For instance
1. Adverb. As an example. "Take ribbon snakes, for example"
Definition of For instance
1. Adverb. (context: conjunctive) as an example ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of For Instance
Literary usage of For instance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"for instance, although the French Mathematical Society has only half as many
members as the American, yet their articles and books listed during 1907 exceed ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Such, for instance, is clearly the case with the full-bottomed wigs worn by the
judges and others. The round wig, till lately worn by bishops, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Translation of unseen passages, in Latin for instance, should be insisted ...
The classical student, for instance, might write on a point of Greek history. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1818)
"A Record may' I admit, that even a Record may be affected by Fraud; be affected
by a Fine, for Instance; if it can be established, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"He is very strong against mere forms; for instance, he calls ' bread and wine a
silly thing, where the heart is not led further ' (Serm. 9). ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We may know, for instance, that pressure and temperature vary proportionately in
a given mass of gas of which the volume is kept constant, without knowing ..."
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