for example

1. Also, for instance. As an illustration of something, as in Dress casually, in blue jeans, for example, or This program has problems—for instance, it's hard to retrieve lost data. The first expression, which dates from the late 1500s, is used throughout this book to illustrate how an idiom is used. The variant dates from the mid-1600s.

Example Sentences

I understand there are additional complexities, for example concerning the particular type of trust in question and the reason for which the trust was established.

From BBC

These furnaces use electricity, not heat from burning fossil fuels, to melt scrap steel – for example – and recycle it.

From BBC

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, for example, famously exchanged letters with Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa, and others, such as Pat Nixon and Rosalyn Carter, travelled the world for humanitarian reasons and shuttle diplomacy.

From BBC

“As Time Goes By,” from “Casablanca,” for example.

From Los Angeles Times

To mark Earth Day, for example, the White House boasted in a statement that increased natural gas exports meant the U.S. would be “sharing cleaner energy with allies” and “reducing global emissions.”

From Salon

Related Words

• as 
• e.g. 
• for instance 
• such as 
• thus