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Example sentences for "for example"

  • The engineer, for example, is trained in a workshop, and never at a school; a method which allows of each individual reaching the level his intelligence permits of.

  • For example, he seldom spoke of the dead, but kept anniversaries with singular pomp.

  • I think, for example, that there's something to be said for my mother, though she is in many ways so deplorable.

  • Evelyn was saying that the finest men were like women, and women were nobler than men--for example, one couldn't imagine a woman like Lillah Harrison thinking a mean thing or having anything base about her.

  • Are they ripe for rebellion, for example?

  • Look at these two men who are coming towards us, for example.

  • I should like, for example, to see how far the windows of the bedrooms command the front.

  • Look, for example, at the queer lot of things which he took from Acton's--what was it?

  • What tragic dignity, for example, can be wrought into a scene like this!

  • He had a singular propensity, for example, to hang over Maule's well, and look at the constantly shifting phantasmagoria of figures produced by the agitation of the water over the mosaic-work of colored pebbles at the bottom.

  • The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.

  • The economic rebuilding program has both helped and harmed the manufacturing sector, for example, by improving the supply of raw materials and by increasing competition from imports.

  • The so-called Islamization of the economy has affected mainly the financial sector; for example, a prohibition on certain types of interest payments.

  • At the present moment, for example, I should be writing a treatise instead of conversing with you.

  • What would it profit a woman, for example, to get him a few months' imprisonment if her own ruin must immediately follow?

  • It is inconceivable, for example, that this ivy and this lawn would have yielded nothing to an expert observer.

  • Occasionally, it is of service, to-day, for example, I should have come to very ignominious grief without it.

  • I should now wish to ask whether this person could not be turned to some further account; for example, to assist me in making a translation into Mandchou of the Psalms and Isaiah, which have not yet been rendered.

  • His brother belonged to a regiment of hussars, whose headquarters were at Evora, but which had outlying parties along the road; for example, at the place where we were stopping.

  • What must they think, for example, on coming to the sentence .

  • For example, he is reading the tenth chapter of I Samuel, and begins, "'Thou shalt meet a company of prophets.

  • Never, for example, was there such an organizer.

  • Few things please him more than to go, for example, blackberrying, and he has a knack of never scratching his face or his fingers when doing so.

  • In his Napoleonic way my uncle had omitted to give an address.

  • I refrained from going to him in spite of an occasional regret that in this way I estranged myself from my aunt Susan, and I maintained a sulky attitude of mind towards him.

  • So I had my first intimation of how industrialism must live in a landlord's land.

  • He fretted across to the hearthrug and took up a position there, replaced his glasses and coughed.

  • Well, it does me good to see you again, Ponderevo.

  • I am most reminded of Bladesover and Eastry by all those regions round about the West End parks; for example, estate parks, each more or less in relation to a palace or group of great houses.

  • You find people running about and doing the most remarkable things being policemen, for example, and burglars.

  • An alloy that was very common--as common as brass, for example.

  • For example; if one went so, up that gully and to that chimney there, then one might come out high among those stunted pines that ran round in a sort of shelf and rose still higher and higher as it passed above the gorge.

  • Georgia Cayvan, for example, was so nervous that she had to be strengthened with hot milk before she could speak, and Julia Marlowe admitted freely that her knees were giving way beneath her.

  • Mrs. Stanton, for example, was rarely accurate in giving figures or dates, while Miss Anthony was always very exact in such matters.

  • For example, in one precinct in Detroit forty more votes were counted against our amendment than there were voters in the district.

  • He knows the vulnerable point of every animal; see, for example, how he flies at the neck of a bullock, tearing open the veins with his grim teeth and claws.

  • For example," said I; "you speak two languages.

  • You see the girl in red, for example, over near the Japanese jar.

  • The least noise, for example, makes me start, and the stupidity of a student causes me exasperation instead of amusement.

  • For example, it is possible for an operator to gain complete command over his subject-- presuming that the latter is a good one.

  • If, for example, in Raymond's case we find so many allusions to the small details of his home upon earth, which prove to be surprisingly correct, is it reasonable to put a blue pencil through all he says of the home which he actually inhabits?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for example" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for not; for one; for such; for the first time; for the following reasons; for the last three; for the same reason; for you must know; forbidden fruit; force against; forcible resistance; foreign affairs; foreign commerce; foreign devils; foreign money; foreign origin; foreign policy; foreign power; forest fire; forgive thee; form and; formerly related; forms part; forty millions; forty rods; have given