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Sentences with instance in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use instance in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for instance.

• About obeying, for instance. (8)
• There is Bach, for instance. (8)
• When you shave, for instance. (8)
• Wearing a nightshirt, for instance? (8)
• One instance was particularly horrible. (7)
• Chaucer is a capital instance in point. (14)
• Instance me a case where I have failed? (10)
• This is just an instance of what I hate. (8)
• You may quote Napoleon as a contrary instance. (10)
• The puppet hero, for instance, is a changed being. (10)
• For instance, there was the Portuguese Marquis de Col. (10)
• But what does anything matter to Harbinger, for instance? (8)
• She cited a well-known instance of degradation in verse. (10)
• You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world. (4)
• The Countess dared no longer instance the Count, her husband. (10)
• I brought her into Plymouth; and here another instance of luck. (4)
• An instance of the difference between myself and the world, now. (10)
• Last night, for instance, we were sitting in the loggia after supper. (8)
• Others, Vernon Whitford, for instance, could help, and moved no hand. (10)
• This lady, for instance, had the case been hers, would have fought it. (10)
• But he found himself obliged to instance something he had quite neglected. (10)
• We see nothing of them, and this is really an instance of gross inattention. (4)
• You may take that for an instance of the national spirit of Liberal newspapers! (10)
• The poet, for instance, is a connoisseur of beauty: to the artist she is a model. (10)
• In the present instance, it meant nothing other than an execution, as he had said. (10)
• London, for instance, he was not afraid to say he thought the wonder of the world. (10)
• You will not often find me quoting Cromwell, but his words apply in this instance. (10)
• I know what I want, generally, speaking, and in this particular instance I want you. (9)
• Why, for instance, her heart ached so some days and felt light and eager other days? (8)
• The instance: she positively would not notice that you wear a dress-coat of a foreign cut. (10)
• At Bouchet, for instance, I uncorked my bottle of Beaujolais, and asked the host to join me. (2)
• In the case of Tracy Runningbrook, they had furnished a signal instance of their discernment. (10)
• In this instance, when the need of a worshipper was sharply felt, he obtained no signs at all. (10)
• At his instance, I went to the archbishop, to implore one of the princes of the Church for succour. (10)
• Sometimes my utmost did not avail, or more strictly speaking it did not avail in one instance with Emerson. (9)
• Ordinary men might say or think it inoffensively; Captain Baskelett, for instance: but not Nevil Beauchamp. (10)
• For instance, Mr. Douglas, of Edinburgh, reprints a great many American books and pays a copyright for them. (14)
• That young couple, for instance, under the pepper-tree, sitting there without a word, just looking at the trees. (8)
• The most important instance of criticism of this kind is afforded by current attacks upon the Associated Press. (16)
• The Femmes Savantes is a capital instance of the uses of comedy in teaching the world to understand what ails it. (10)
• They actually enjoyed the sensation in every instance, except when a strong current was passed through the trunk. (21)
• But Mavering rested satisfied with his achievement in that instance, and did not attempt anything else of the kind. (9)
• Settle it as you like; say what is proper; I am sure you will feel such an instance of his kindness at such a moment! (4)
• The vetturino seized the image at once to strike home his instance of the danger of outraging the will of the people. (10)
• A single instance, a cant phrase, a fatherly manner, might have wrecked him, by arousing ancient or latent opposition. (10)
• For instance, up in agricultural Windsor county, in southeastern Vermont, nestles the village of White River Junction. (21)
• It is but an instance of the way in which a profession growing more serious is bound to take knowledge more seriously. (16)
• Her continual agitations made her doubtful of her human feelings: she clung to that instance of her filial stedfastness. (10)
• A tour, for instance, in Norway and Sweden, where none of them had ever been, and perhaps down through Finland into Russia. (8)
• We talk, for instance, of poetry for poets, and we fondly imagine that this is different from talking of cookery for cooks. (9)
• As for instance to-day, when he had suspected his client of perjury, and was almost convinced that he must throw up his brief. (8)
• His generous gift of the endowment of triennial prizes to American composers is an admirable instance of his warm-heartedness. (3)
• Secretly behind it, the man was proud of having a heart to beat for the cause of the besiegeing enemy, in the present instance. (10)
• The old chairman, for instance, still had his passion for getting his own way, still had his prestige, and set a lot of store by it! (8)
• In one city, for instance, the owner of the land on which we exhibited gave plain directions as to its area and they were abided by. (21)
• Upon the whole, I commend my own conduct in this affair extremely, and regard it as a very happy instance of circumspection and tenderness. (4)
• But if he was that other and changed man, if he approved himself in this supreme instance, then she need torment herself so cruelly no more. (12)
• He went to Scotland at the instance of a pupil, Miss Stirling, gave concerts at Edinburgh and Glasgow, besides one in the interval at Manchester. (3)
• So the confession closed; and in the present instance there were not any forgotten chambers to be unlocked and ransacked for addenda confessions. (10)
• This was the more certain because the composers who wrote for the instrument were also players, in almost every instance the virtuosi of their times. (3)
• For instance, the power leaves her when the performance closes for the night, and does not develop again until she is on exhibition the following day. (21)
• But your Liberals are sometimes Radicals in their youth, and his choice of parties might not be so much sagacity as an instance of unripe lightheadedness. (10)
• How, for instance, could people who had once known the simple verity, the refined perfection of Miss Austere, enjoy, anything less refined and less perfect? (9)
• Often their fairest, apparently sweetest, when brought to the keenest of the tests, are graceless; or worse, artificially consonant; in either instance barren of the poetic. (10)

Also see sentences for: allusion, asking, demand, entreaty, hint, intimation, persistency.

Definition of instance:

• instance, in’stans, n. quality of being urgent: solicitation: occurrence: occasion: example: (_shak._) evidence, proof. | v.t. to mention as an example. | n. in’stancy, insistency. | adj. instan’tial (_rare_). | at the instance of, at the motion or solicitation of; for instance, to take as an example. (0)

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