We found 43 examples of how to use instance in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 43.
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| 1. | Japan is full of beautiful cities. Kyoto and Nara, for instance. | |
| 2. | For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese. | |
| 3. | Take, for instance, your family problems. | |
| 4. | This is an instance of modern British life. | |
| 5. | In this instance we are provided with an exact account of the conversation between the two poets. | |
| 6. | On his tour of Italy, he visited several cities which are famous for their scenic beauty, for instance, Naples and Florence. | |
| 7. | We have many things in common: hobbies, educational backgrounds, for instance. | |
| 8. | I want to go abroad, for instance, to Italy and Spain. | |
| 9. | In large cities, in London for instance, there is heavy smog. | |
| 10. | For instance, "delight" is the opposite of "sorrow." | |
| 11. | A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. | |
| 12. | For instance, gauges, such as thermometers and barometers, are instruments. | |
| 13. | Birds, for instance, have a special protective device. | |
| 14. | For instance, in my father's business the timing of sales and purchases was very important, and he would sometimes write or say to his colleagues "There is a tide," without going into detail. | |
| 15. | A base service performed for a person of very high degree may become a very honorific office; as for instance the office of a Maid of Honor or of a Lady in Waiting to the Queen, or the King's Master of the Horse or his Keeper of the Hounds. | |
| 16. | The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. | |
| 17. | From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today’s literature is, for instance, largely destructive. | |
| 18. | Left-hand threads have now become unusual in machinery but they can still be found on some objects, such as on bicycles' pedals, for instance. | |
| 19. | For instance, people who physically have to have alcohol can die from not drinking. | |
| 20. | As we outgrow the need for professions based on the monetary system, for instance lawyers, bankers, insurance agents, marketing and advertising personnel, salespersons, and stockbrokers, a considerable amount of waste will be eliminated. | |
| 21. | For instance, what would you have done if you were in my place? | |
| 22. | Aluminium and glass are important materials in civil construction, even though not as important as steel and wood, for instance. | |
| 23. | The history of some words is a real masterpiece. For instance, kaput. The original word was the Latin "caput" - "a head"; and the way from "a head" to "the end of everything" is rather long. | |
| 24. | The English articles are bread-and-butter important. For instance, if I ask my English friend to hold my bag for a while, and then ask to give it back by saying "Give me bag", he'll probably steal the bag of the man standing around because he didn't understand which bag was meant. | |
| 25. | How important is family to you? It is of course not all that clear what that means. Mainly because 'family' can mean a lot of things. For instance, many people call those who are important to them 'family'. That renders the question redundant, obviously. |