instance

Example Sentences

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For instance, states along the West Coast are seeing higher annual temperature extremes, while many northern states are experiencing warmer minimum temperatures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Take, for instance, a pot of white beans built for speed.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Viewers are meant to think this banal instance of unseemly actions provides a counterbalance to the initial revelation about the other partner, but it’s not in the same moral universe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

What about, for instance, the child of a woman who’s illegally trafficked into the U.S. then gives birth here?

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

And although her father just might have been right in this instance, Clare was growing very tired of that old badger’s influence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman