for example

Speech parts

1. for example - Adverb

2. for example - Phrase

Meaning

as an example

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Synonyms

for instance e.g. like especially mainly particularly specifically notably namely principally chiefly in particular including i.e. that is to say

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Antonyms

besides conversely but although except bar

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Examples

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. Carl Friedrich Gauss

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. James Thurber

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. Kristen Bell

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. Wim Wenders

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. Anton Chekhov

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. Daniel Goleman

Words in the phrase

for example

Close letter words and terms

for every contingency for everyone else for everyone to see for exceeding for explanatory purposes for eyes only