for example

As an example.

Prepositional phrase

  1. As an example.
    • The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.
    • The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the...
    • For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification. - 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to...

    Synonyms: as e.g. for instance like such as

Origin

First attested in the second half of the 16th century.

Related

for one