We found 43 examples of how to use instance in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 43 of 43.
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| 26. | The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception. | |
| 27. | For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, three-dimensional representations of his four-dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing. | |
| 28. | Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man. | |
| 29. | What makes you think the Middle East is more important than Mesoamerica, for instance? | |
| 30. | One Tatoeba contributor was fascinated to realize that at two widely different times she had created the very same sentence. However, within minutes of her adding the second instance, the Horus script recognized that they were identical, and it automatically deleted the redundant sentence. | |
| 31. | Nearly every woman I know has experienced some instance of sexual harassment. | |
| 32. | Take "good", for instance. If you have a word like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad"? "Ungood" will do just as well — better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. | |
| 33. | It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men. | |
| 34. | We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face. | |
| 35. | For instance, even if you aren't practicing everyday you could still be studying. | |
| 36. | Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. | |
| 37. | Time, it is true, absence, change of scene and new faces, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance, as it has done in many others; but her residence remained solitary, and her mind without those means of dissipating her pleasing visions. | |
| 38. | Still, Saint Petersburg is a mysterious city. Today, for instance, in the Moika River was found a professor from a local university with two severed female hands in a backpack. | |
| 39. | You're not the only person to add sets of sentences that differ in only small ways from each other (the pronoun, for instance), and while I'm sure that those who do it have good intentions, I wish they would put their energy into other areas. | |
| 40. | It's easy enough to find elsewhere (Wiktionary, for instance) how to conjugate a verb. It's much harder to find the meaning of a word captured in a realistic sentence. This is Tatoeba's key mission, the thing that makes it unique, and I believe we should focus on it. | |
| 41. | Mentally the Third Men were indeed very unlike their predecessors. Their intelligence was in some ways no less agile; but it was more cunning than intellectual, more practical than theoretical. They were interested more in the world of sense-experience than in the world of abstract reason, and again far more in living things than in the lifeless. They excelled in certain kinds of art, and indeed also in some fields of science. But they were led into science more through practical, aesthetic or religious needs than through intellectual curiosity. In mathematics, for instance (helped greatly by the duodecimal system, which resulted from their having twelve fingers), they became wonderful calculators; yet they never had the curiosity to inquire into the essential nature of number. Nor, in physics, were they ever led to discover the more obscure properties of space. They were, indeed, strangely devoid of curiosity. Hence, though sometimes capable of a penetrating mystical intuition, they never seriously disciplined themselves under philosophy, nor tried to relate their mystical intuitions with the rest of their experience. | |
| 42. | In general the physical and mental form of conscious beings is an expression of the character of the planet on which they live. On certain very large and aqueous planets, for instance, we found that civilization had been achieved by marine organisms. On these huge globes no land-dwellers as large as a man could possibly thrive, for gravitation would have nailed them to the ground. But in the water there was no such limitation to bulk. One peculiarity of these big worlds was that, owing to the crushing action of gravitation, there were seldom any great elevations and depressions in their surface. Thus they were usually covered by a shallow ocean, broken here and there by archipelagos of small, low islands. | |
| 43. | Everybody is good at something and you, for instance, are a liar. |