for example — Englisches Wörterbuch

1. As an example.

   Gebrauch

   • conjunctive

   Synonyme

   ase.g.for instancelikesuch as

   Verwandte Wörter

   for one

   Beispiele

   The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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 foot

   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.

Adverb

1. as an example

   Synonyme

   for instancee.g.

   Beispiele

   take ribbon snakes, for example