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Example sentences for "good instance"

  • These adaptations are most easily recognised in irregular flowers; but they are present in regular flowers, of which those of Linum offer a good instance, as I will now endeavour to show.

  • Maw informs me that all the varieties of the scarlet Pelargoniums which have contracted or imperfect leaves have contracted flowers: the difference between "Brilliant" and its parent "Tom Thumb" is a good instance of this.

  • That matter may be readily transferred without the aid of vessels from part to part of the body, we have a good instance in a case recorded by Sir J.

  • Here we have a good instance of the wide difference between the inheritance of a character and the power of transmitting it to crossed offspring.

  • For a good instance, how imagination hindered science, there is the following list, made by Dr.

  • The following table, from Hewlett's Manual of Bacteriology, is a good instance of one of many practical difficulties.

  • This form of recall goes by the name of perseveration, and a good instance of it is the "running of a tune in the head", shortly after it has been heard.

  • With regard to the landscape, the picture is a good instance at once of Claude's strength and weakness.

  • This picture, besides its splendid colouring, is a good instance of that law of order or symmetry which is characteristic of all perfect art.

  • The picture--a ghastly subject ghastlily treated--is yet a good instance of Poussin's learned treatment.

  • Footnote 207: Of this conflict there is a good instance, almost at the outset of the Cambridgeshire survey (p.

  • A good instance of the confusion caused by this assumption is seen in the remarks of Bridges as to Barnack (ii.

  • A good instance is the subject of the sack of Troy, the principal episodes of which we find depicted by the masters Euphronios and Brygos (Plate LIV.

  • This seemed to me at the time a good instance of the way a professional habit may narrow one's views of things, for these law-books were written for lawyers alone, whilst the picture exhibitions were intended for the public generally.

  • There is a good instance of this in a letter from Ampere to his young wife, that "Julie" who was lost to him so soon.

  • Byron is a good instance of the first, and Shelley of the second.

  • A good instance of the valuable finds made by the Survey party in this unknown district, is that of the ruin called Deir SerA"r.

  • HannA(R)na); but this is a good instance of the uncertainty which must always remain as to ancient sites, unless the old names can be recovered.

  • A good instance of the excellences which a Roman critic looked for in tragedy is afforded by the praise Cicero bestows on the Niptra, a play imitated from Sophocles.

  • In this Statius follows him; the simile of the infant Apollo noticed in this chapter is a good instance.

  • The above is a good instance both of the supernatural powers attributed to the poet, and the supernatural interpretation put upon his supposed exercise of them.

  • A good instance of the same thing came to light long after in the practice of the celebrated Dr Rush of Philadelphia.

  • Carlisle was a good instance of the increase of urban population and the breeding of typhus.

  • We have a good instance of how the bark-craze was at this time influencing the very highest circles of practice in the case of Lord Keeper Guildford, in July, 1685, as related in another chapter.

  • This case also affords a good instance of careless indexing in another particular, for these references are separated under different headings instead of being gathered under one, as follows: Harley (Robert) 277 references.

  • A good instance of confusion will be found in the index to a volume of The Freemason which is before me; but this is by no means singular, and certainly not the worst of its class.

  • A good instance of the unemphatic ending is the last act of Sir Arthur Pinero's Letty.

  • A good instance of the "great scene" which involves a marked peripety occurs in Sardou's Dora, once famous in England under the title of Diplomacy.

  • The Australian boomerang is a good instance of one such independent discovery.

  • The feathers of the common guinea-fowl offer a good instance of white spots surrounded by darker zones; and wherever the white spots are large and stand near each other, the surrounding dark zones become confluent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good instance" 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:
    good broth; good chap; good colour; good dame; good daughter; good digestion; good friend; good fruit; good harbour; good instance; good life; good long; good many; good musician; good position; good price; good rest; good sermon; good sir; good sooth; good style; good test; good things; good turns; good usage; trifle difficult