| 单词 | instance |
| 例句 | “Some parts are very good indeed; other parts, you’ve gone off. For instance,” she turned a page, “here Fate says: ‘And Youth, what is thy ambition?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you feel sorry about killing twenty children? for instance, and Why were you angry about Furball when you did something far worse? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, these columns were rarely to Lord Darlington's liking, for I can recall numerous instances of his looking up from a journal and saying something like: 'Young Reggie writing such nonsense again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Phrases like “Chemise to you” would never be bandied between her and Frith for instance. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” the Savage went on to admit, “there are some very nice things. All that music in the air, for instance . . .” “Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been instructed that in such instances we were never to move toward the person in danger for fear of starting a riot. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One instance of have is enough: it should be If that hadn’t happened. like, as, such as. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For instance, I recall overhearing at dinner one evening, when a particular newspaper had been mentioned, his lordship remarking: 'Oh, you mean that Jewish propaganda sheet.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In many instances I urged him to restore these deletions—but it was insane. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aren’t you concerned about making the wrong moves and having no one there to help you?” for instance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How, for instance, does a wing-making master gene “know” to build a wing in the second thoracic segment, and not, say, the first or third segment? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Your problems are very serious, you know. For instance ...” He looked at the paper in his hand. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The few instances of it that I’ve had the misfortune to witness are among the worst memories of my life. And let me assure you, I’ve lived long enough to see some truly dreadful things.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There were some things that were the same as at her old school—the desks, for instance. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Barack had experienced marriage as ephemeral: His mother had married twice, divorced twice, and in each instance managed to move on with her life, career, and young children intact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The first thing to search for would be unusual answer patterns in a given classroom: blocks of identical answers, for instance, especially among the harder questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If, for instance, police were randomly sprinkled in some cities and not in others, we could look to see whether crime declines in the cities where the police happen to land. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Weylin, for instance, had known just how far to push Sarah. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Of course, one seeks to provide a general, sustained service to one's employer, the value of which could never be reduced to a number of specific instances - such as that concerning Lord Halifax. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z That way, when you saw a tire track in the dirt, you knew instantly if it belonged to the great fleets of Kamkwamba Toyota, for instance, or Gilbert Company LTD. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Well, for instance, every bee has its role to play.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, for instance, Americans tend to get most of their animal protein from cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens, with game such as venison just a rare delicacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But for instance I don’t even remember the address of his hotel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The transmission of hereditary traits was just one instance of information flow—but if you looked deeply, squinting your conceptual lenses, it was easy to imagine information moving pervasively through the entire living world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He would choose a place he knew well— the school, for instance—and imagine himself walking through it, picturing it as he went in minute detail. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When two particles merge, for instance, they meet at a point: a zero-dimensional singularity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Court records showed, for instance, that Burt had stolen money that Bigheart had intended for Vaughan, even though Burt purported to be Vaughan’s close friend. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Neville’s aim was so poor that he kept accidentally sending much heavier things flying across the room — Professor Flitwick, for instance. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I don’t know why anyone would want to buy a watercolor painting of the skyline, for instance, or a woodcarving of the Cubs logo, but I suppose there must be a market for such things. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The crust beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for instance, is only about nineteen to twenty-five miles thick, and no one knows why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For instance, she knew about the constellations of the night sky, but the book hadn’t said anything about the mist around the island that made the shapes the children saw at sunrise and sunset. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Did he tell you anything about this enemy of his? Did he, for instance, say why his life was threatened?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The notation “7, 7, 14, 10, 11, 11,” for instance, means that in one six-second stretch, one member of the couple was briefly angry, then neutral, had a moment of defensiveness, and then began whining. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For instance, the type found in Florida went by the Latin name of Athene cunicularia floridana and had darker feathers than the Western variety. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But in both of those instances, they would have piped the noise directly into whatever building the kids were in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially when we learned that some of our close cousins—squirrels, for instance, and rabbits—were well liked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z NOTE.—In a few instances pro- is changed into pur-, as purpose; into por-, as portray; and into pol-, as pollute. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z In Dallas, Texas, for instance, the then Vice President and Mrs. Johnson were vulgarly insulted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The fo’c’sle hands were worlds apart from the university scientists, for instance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It is very possible there were a number of other instances of this sort which I have now forgotten. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, thermodynamics tells you that it is impossible to create a perpetual-motion machine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Every now and again she didn’t react like I thought she would—for instance, that time she got Papa to make me paint her dining room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Each of us noticed, however, that those instances of friendship were shrinking rather than growing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What for instance was he doing with two women fifteen years younger than himself? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That conversation, as Hamilton now remembered it, “consisted of comments on the political principles and views of Col. Bur...without reference to any instance of past conduct, or to private character.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The paperweight on his desk, for instance, was not a simple, inert rock but a tiny priapus carved from stone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I can see, for instance, how she might have felt I had been the one to first violate an understanding, and that her little dig had just been a retaliation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I know my brother is the epitome of the golden boy: He's athletic and smart and Harvard bound and does SAT practice tests "for fun, dude." From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Order it for instance, to direct agricultural activity on the basis of an average July temperature in Iowa of 57 degrees Fahrenheit. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I might have discovered that in at least one instance the wheel had stopped, that in spite of all the unrelenting calculation, chance and luck had, at least once, changed something. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The device is so important for social uses; she’s heavily involved in her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, where, for instance, she recently helped write a musical. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, who would ever think you would shout, “You’re going to vacuum up that squirrel!” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He probably loved to win as much as Lenglen, for instance. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z For instance, annually, the black man spends over $3 billion for automobiles, but America contains hardly any franchised black automobile dealers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles Biddle, for instance, tried to ignore the entire tragedy by insisting that those who had died were all foreign-born or strangers to the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I relate very well to dead words. They interest me and they help me. I can insult people without their knowing it. For instance, Matt is a cuglion.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Arizona, for instance.You’re forever hearing about the snakes of Arizona but when did you ever hear of fleas in Arizona? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But for all that, it is still satisfying to be able to point to instances in one's career that highlight very clearly how wrong such people are. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, we know, with some precision, the position of the particles inside. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet the assumption that Lawrence and Teller would work together in unalloyed harmony turned out to be an instance of hope triumphing over reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like, if you want to see the common characteristics between mammals, reptiles, and fish, for instance, you draw a Venn diagram and list all the attributes of each one inside a circle. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Few pupils were openly naughty anymore—there were fewer fights in the playground, for instance—but everyone seemed guiltier. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Immediately, and in every instance, they will return to them, just as Pisa did after one hundred years of being held in servitude by the Florentines. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “You did not hear, for instance, a commotion going on in the compartment next to yours? The American lady who occupies it had quite an attack of hysterics and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They are easily fooled, and wish to be: for instance, with a few gasps and wheezes they can be conned into thinking they are sexual supermen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “For instance, you could have helped me in the matter of identification.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, 1 remember a little boy with a plastic leg. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, during the War, after the pipelines were blown up, he and his classmates had ferried water up to the girls’ dorm, each leaving his bucket at the door of a particular resident. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Fiend’ is the word you would get if you took away one letter—‘r’ in this instance—but didn’t rearrange the letters. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z After each instance, union people eventually found the wherewithal to rally and try again, until 1934, when companies were forced by the federal government to recognize unions and negotiate with workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The newsfeeds were airing live coverage of the hundreds of large-scale battles breaking out on Frobozz, around nearly every instance of the “dwelling long neglected.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For instance, Nick learned in social studies class that people who buy stuff are called con-sumers. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A very different sort of mind was hers from that, for instance, of the sisters of St. John. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, for instance, she writes: This whole incident put me in mind of Alice White. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Principalities are either hereditary, in which instance the family of the prince has ruled for generations, or they are new. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I was hungry enough to eat a pig, a rabbit—heck, I’d have eaten a muskrat when things got really bad—but Mom still refused to serve it in the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The early Greeks, for instance, used the word "fiving" to describe the process of tallying. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z By Euergetes’ time, the situation was embarrassing—a spring planting festival, for instance, would actually take place in spring only once every 1,460 years. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The hats, for instance: how could my mother have forgotten about the hats? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even for valuable crops, the times of domestication vary greatly: for instance, peas were domesticated by 8000 B.C., olives around 4000 B.C., strawberries not until the Middle Ages, and pecans not until 1846. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z For instance, in the first race Achilles runs to the one-foot mark. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The next step will be to continue measuring the impact of police innovations—in Los Angeles, for instance, where Bratton himself became police chief in late 2002. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For instance, reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X—a book that begins and ends in the madness and pathology of America’s racial obsessions—is a rite of passage for young black men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “For instance, you had orange juice, boiled eggs, toast and jam, and milk for breakfast,” he said, turning to Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, this one, now, coalescing in the air like a queer humidity. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Simpsons character Troy McClure is a perfect instance of the way an appeal to ethos works, or tries to. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, when Ken, who was assigned to bring oil, wanted to know what kind, Toby couldn’t exactly say. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me? You’re crazy. I suck at lots of things. Stargazing, for instance. And Ping-Pong. I’m the world’s worst Ping-Pong player.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For instance, the number two comes before the number three and after the number one; nowhere else makes any sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once, for instance, he told me that he had learned that a Harlem couple, not Black Muslims, had named their newborn son “Malcolm” after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there was the matter of Mr. Clem Crummy having a drawing to get a new name for the Cold Sassy Hotel, recently bought from old Mr. Boop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I get muddled up with half the questions I want to ask you myself. For instance, who was my...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Rab, for instance, all that spring had been going to Lexington once or twice a week to drill with his fellow townsmen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the Counters, for instance: fast-walking men, red-cheeked women, keeping score of how many times they walked around the deck, reveling in how fit they were. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I know without being told, for instance, that Mr. Smeath lives a secret life of trains and escapes in his head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I thought, Mr. Loomis would have had to sleep some of the time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Rumors about the Yule Ball were flying everywhere, though Harry didn’t believe half of them — for instance, that Dumbledore had bought eight hundred barrels of mulled mead from Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But I soon realized that Fannie’s murder was not an isolated instance, and the failure to pursue justice was not unusual at the time. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Deadly physical force was okay to use in three instances: to prevent an escape; in self-defense; or to prevent arson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, that she would not put her money in a bank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now, for instance, if you had a poodle and it died, what would you do?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I know, for instance, a lot of things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, the efforts at Cook County Hospital to help emergency room doctors better diagnose chest pain. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There is one recorded instance of a woman smearing honey on her toddler’s fingers so that the bear would lick it off for the video camera. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I remember, for instance, books such as Will Durant’s story of Oriental civilization, and Mahatma Gandhi’s accounts of the stmggle to drive the British out of India. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Although in one instance the bearers of not good tidings, Mr. and Mrs. Weston’s visit this morning was in another respect particularly opportune. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z For instance, “We are both in this room feeling…” #29. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Searching for a way out, I said, “Why do Granny’s white people all of a sudden want to see me? What’s so special about me? Why not someone else? George or Uncle Piet, for instance.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “They certainly are confusing; now what’s the Waters Office, for instance?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When he returned from his first political posting, as quaestor in Sicily, for instance, he imagined his fame would have spread far and wide. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, I knew right off the bat that Arnold, my stockbroker, and Pasqual, my lawn-mowing business partner, were good guys. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The only instance that comes to mind is the attempt of the Hayes Society to devise criteria for membership. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He huffed: “It is an unprecedented instance in chess history.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z David’s adultety with Bathsheba weighed less on history’s scales, for instance, than the positive fact of David’s killing Goliath. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a rare instance the Law Society was ordered to pay its own costs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every police agency in the Western Hemisphere clamored that no test would detect its presence, in an instance of illegal entry here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as a powerful surgical antiseptic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For instance, Sir Kay had a black key on his tent, and Sir Ulbawes, in the opposing camp, had a couple of elbows in flowing sleeves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In a for instance, I’ve never seen a woman nor a Spackle in the flesh, obviously. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There’s no serenity, for instance, none at all, no closeness to God. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We know of countless later instances of magic which require only the crudest and most schematic kind of representation, such as two crossed sticks for a human figure. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t supply foreign warships with fuel, for instance, and you couldn’t ship guns to foreign armies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “The meaning of life,” said Botticelli, “is suffering, specifically the suffering of others. Prisoners, for instance. Reducing a prisoner to weeping and wailing and begging is a delightful way to invest your existence with meaning. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “How do you justify jumping from a few instances to a generalization?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In one instance, a group of Klansmen stabbed to death a prominent state senator inside his county courthouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Right now, for instance, I could ast, ‘Lord, please raise Grandpa from the dead,’ but it wouldn’t happen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In physical terms, for instance, one rower’s arms might be longer than another’s, but the latter might have a stronger back than the former. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It is, once again, the sequence that carries the message: the words act, tac, and cat, for instance, arise from the same letters, yet signal vastly different meanings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For instance, multiplying by the number i was equivalent to spinning the sphere 90 degrees clockwise. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z —Like for instance, I look at Monty and his future looks so bright. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are technologies, for instance the steam engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Several other images from that day have stuck in my mind: for instance, Perez’s face when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “The Cape’s not so bad. You’re safer there than lots of places. For instance—take the Mediterranean. There—you’d be running from a French privateer, and probably be hulled by a Barbary pirate.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I say that because there are instances when she’ll look at me and there’s a noticeable change in her eyes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It is the one instance when the commingling of their convictions and the very intimacy of their partnership led him astray. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If a door slammed behind you, for instance, he’d shout, “Who slammed that door?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Then there are those beasts that, due to cleverness or innate shyness, avoid contact with Muggles at all costs—for instance, the unicorn, the Mooncalf and the centaur. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe the attacker is a woman? For instance, somebody insanely jealous of Nicole?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It determines the core of the phrase’s meaning: in this case married his mother is a particular instance of marrying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Aristotle, for instance, sets out in Rhetoric a whole series of characteristics that distinguish young people from old. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “If it happens that you are not chosen at the first stop, you will have several additional opportunities. I cannot think of an instance . . .” She pauses and purses her lips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “The thing I like best is how you never do what I imagine you will. For instance, I didn’t think you’d duel over me.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z So for instance, in the fridge, there should be five of every soda. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The best man’s speech can provide a caricatured instance of decorum misfiring. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Peace officers and firefighters, for instance, are only partially defined by their job. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In both instances Adams had disagreed with Jefferson and been proven right. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is, as it happens, an instance from my own experience, an episode that took place before the war, around 1935. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, it was easy to count the number of words the Negro engineer on Mission Impossible spoke as well as the black POW on Hogan’s Heroes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “For instance,” she hoarsely whispered, “take the way they have one another here. Mad, I tell you, absolutely mad. Everybody belongs to every one else—don’t they? don’t they?” she insisted, tugging at Lenina’s sleeve. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it’s too clumsy to use a possessive with an ing word—for instance, when you’d have to make a whole string of words possessive, not just one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a story, for instance, about how Curt Lemon had gone trick-or-treating on Halloween. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In other instances, the words were spoken over images of African American residents wilting in the heat outside the Morial Convention Center or standing on rooftops waving for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Percy wished he had that power over certain living people... like Octavian, for instance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For instance, students were told they’ve received a text from their significant other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, there is much archaeological evidence for exchanges of people and material objects between Japan and Korea in the period A.D. 300-700. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or was it rarer even than that; had Chet and Bobby sensed it then, for instance? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizzie, for instance, had been hiding out at East River for close to two years, having narrowly escaped capture by PSFs who had pulled her parents’ car over in Maryland. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It had been more than a month and some of us had almost gone through the withdrawal stage, even though there were still instances of vomiting and collapsing at unexpected moments. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z For instance, the reaction time grows if the person must make a choice, or engage a particular motor skill, like pressing a specific button. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We once fought about an egg yolk, for instance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I held hands with her all the time, for instance. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z For instance, writing the number 87 in the Egyptian system would require 15 symbols: eight heels and seven vertical marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Estraven, for instance, one feels the man’s power as an augmentation of his character; he cannot make an empty gesture or say a word that is not listened to. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘I mean, for instance, you make any comment to those two-headed guys about the way they smell and . . . oh.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Strategy A will result in Myrtle’s choosing the best suitor in eleven of the twenty-four instances, while strategy B will result in success in ten of the twenty-four instances. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly it was to do with the limitations of equipment–there were, for instance, no centrifuges until the second half of the century, severely restricting many kinds of experiments–and partly it was social. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For instance: saying nothing about Flora's potential stoutness as Flora consumed the second helping of macaroni and cheese. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, x2 – 1 = 0 has two solutions: 1 and –1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He used it for many other things—hauling hay and firewood, for instance, and mowing, and clearing snow in the winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In not a single instance did a white hear them out. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I get to thinking about a life I may have had with you, Mr Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And in both instances, Jefferson managed to convince himself that these apparent contradictions were, well, merely apparent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I recall the first instance where I fully credited his quick parts: I observed him blacking his master’s shoes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Pumblechook was in favour of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z When there was any friction between people—if my father or mother had had to scold Joseph, David, or me for instance—he would sense it and hide. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Here’s how Gracie Allen might have talked about a souffle recipe, for instance: It is possible to make this souffle with four eggs instead ofeight. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, although the Polynesians who colonized Easter Island around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He drawled, “Yes, an educated man is handy. For instance—when there are errors in Moore, he can find them.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not for a mechanic, for instance. It would be a good thing, if you were a mechanic.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z For instance, he was working on a technology to burn coal more efficiently, so that even the lowest-grade coal could be mined and sold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, once all other factors are controlled for, it is clear that students from rural areas tend to do worse than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “To get somewhere,” said Grover, “a man has to understand his assets and his liabilities. You, for instance, prefer not to lose this money.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Cells depend on chemical reactions to live: during respiration, for instance, sugar combines chemically with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For instance, one can examine what did happen when European farmers were transplanted to Greenland or the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Genesis 49:10 states, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah...until Shiloh come.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, that hydrogen was the lightest element, so he gave it an atomic weight of one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Medieval painting, for instance, is to a large extent “applied,” in the sense that it embellishes surfaces which serve other, practical purposes as well—walls, book pages, windows, furniture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, what about the people of the great Incan city of Cuzco, which was ransacked by foreigners in the sixteenth century? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “For instance,” continued the boy, “if you happened to like deserts, you might not think this was beautiful at all.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z So they regrouped all of their forces around ten adjacent instances of the Zork playing field near the planet’s south pole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Lorch, for instance, once reedited an episode of Sesame Street so that certain key scenes of some of the sketches were out of order. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, when I told them Cloke and I had gone down to Bunny’s room around four on Thursday, for instance.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Another instance of James Parker working behind the scenes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For instance, at this minute he hated Archie with a special burning hate that was part of the boredom and the weariness. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For all I may be forsaking, he’s giving up a good deal more: the possibility of having more wives than one, for instance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At other times, for instance, I would make up new laws. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If it is considered practical in these instances, why not for all? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For instance, I had seen the kinds of miracles stockvel had wrought on families who took the risks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, consider all the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa living within the range of wild zebras and buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I want to know why he’s letting me teach in the school now, for instance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But if someone had done something really evil—like spread cholera, for instance—wouldn’t that person be punished? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, all cultivated peas share the same recessive gene that prevents ripe pods of cultivated peas from spontaneously popping open and spilling their peas, as wild pea pods do. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now when he saw people for whom America was a disappointment, for instance — the Petes of the world — he did not look away. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In both instances the deep sense of exclusion was identical. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, why weren’t Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who decimated, subjugated, or exterminated Europeans and Asians? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But some plants need a male and a female before they can give fruit. Plantains, for instance.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z For instance, when she raised her hand in class, her answer wasn’t always what the teacher wanted, but it was almost certain to be fascinating. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief Marshal Williams, for instance, had jumped aboard a passing engine and was now at one of the remaining bridge crossings, hosing it down. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z When we got mad we tended to cause problems... like World War II, for instance. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn’t lose weight as everyone had long assumed, but gains weight–an extraordinary discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Now take mileage for instance," he went on. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Lynn had started to wear lipstick when our parents weren’t around. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, their wild ancestors required very little genetic change to be converted into crops—for instance, in wheat, just the mutations for nonshattering stalks and uniform quick germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it is because I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on Lucy’s account, that their devotion was manifested; for over and over again have I seen similar instances of woman’s kindness. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Even more remarkable were those instances when, for no special reason apparendy, I’d become conscious of the fact that my companion was speaking only to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, isolated New Zealand ended up with only dogs; Easter and Tikopia, with only chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech, mentioned above in the section about pathos, contains a nicely clean instance of division. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Snow for instance is black, and people’s eyeballs and teeth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I recall Lady Astor remarking, not without a certain bitterness, that our silver 'was probably unrivalled'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The number of modern actors who use a formal method of loci to remember their lines, I daresay, isn’t that high, for instance—and not everyone in the ancient world went along with it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He had known, for instance, a horse nearly dead beat with fatigue to perk up when told it was only a little farther to his destination. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the enormous investments made in nuclear weapons during World War II and in airplanes and trucks during World War I launched whole new fields of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance I tried linking a piece of chalk to a glass bottle of water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For instance, why didn’t you marry Mr. Son Black? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But home in this instance is not a restful place; it’s more like what is known in the military as a “situation.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t say it’s present only in churches. It could be right here in this house, for instance. As a matter of fact, I believe it is,” I said, a smile on my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as “two and two make five” were beyond his intellectual grasp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Just if, for instance, I can’t convince my mother to drag three young kids into the wilderness in winter.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But there were any number of things that would seem incredible about Dumbledore; that he had once received bottom marks in a Transfiguration test, for instance, or had taken up goat-charming like Aberforth.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He forced me to consider things I'd rather not think about—the sex of my guitar, for instance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z For instance, in 1519 Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 Spaniards, to conquer the fiercely militaristic Aztec Empire with a population of many millions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’d evolved this system where we called for particular favourite scenes to be played again—like, for instance, the moment the American jumps over the barbed wire on his bike in The Great Escape. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “You did not, for instance, see a lady in a scarlet kimono with dragons on it?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z If the hounds had turned mutinous, for instance, Lot and his allies would have been ready to ride with Arthur’s knights, in quelling what they would have considered a real rebellion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Klan custom, for instance, to append a Kl to many words. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Velma, for instance, one of the four Anne Klein women, said that she picked none of the men and that she made up her mind about each of them right away. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's a lousy movie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Yes, my friends, it’s true. We do know some things. For instance, we know the Sender uses children to deliver the hidden messages.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z "We have to protect our gains. It's inevitable that some must make greater sacrifices than others . . ." "That 'some' being my people . . ." "In this instance, yes." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance: wanting a squirrel to have a chair at the table. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z In a rambling treatise entitled The Racial Biology of Jews, Otmar von Verschuer, a professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, argued, for instance, that neurosis and hysteria were intrinsic genetic features of Jews. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of course, he reflected, this may never come up again in my work; it could be an anomaly, something for instance to do with my feelings for The Magic Flute. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “You are correct. For instance, Mr. Peckleman. He will be leaving right now.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There were luxuries in my rooms that I had not known existed on Winter—for instance, a shower. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The other day, for instance, the Gestapo deposited an elderly, crippled Jewish woman on Miep’s doorstep while they set off to find a car. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the prosecutor agreed that there was no reason to bring in Reggie’s failed mission, and he had never intended to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She had received instructions from both the men and women, in some instances from the children. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, people are made up of molecules of water and a few organic contaminants. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I could set fire to the house, for instance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor hadn’t said my name, for instance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For instance, if you're at a girl's house, her parents always come home at the wrong time--or you're afraid they will. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z For instance, the Indian population of Hispaniola declined from around 8 million, when Columbus arrived in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Grandmère knew there were a couple of kids who had made my life miserable, for instance, but she didn’t know the specifics. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “People who say they are no good are always the good ones. Let’s change the subject and talk about something pleasant England, for instance.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As it happens, there is an instance that comes to mind which I believe illustrates rather well the real limits of whatever truth may be contained in Mr Harry Smith's views. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They too have been summoned by the bell, they resent it, they have other things to do, the dishes for instance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “For instance, uncle, if Lancelot were actually found in Guenever's bed, in front of witnesses, then there would be no need for combat, would there?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I remember one evening when Mr. Monroe picked some of his sour balls out of the bowl by his chair and dropped a green one on the floor. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For instance, most stores buy yellow and black crepe paper and black paper cats, masks and papier-mâché pumpkins in October. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sojourner Truth, for instance, was still a slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In each instance, as the women came through the church doors and saw me, the “spiritual bouquets” changed to hostility. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the thing with Victoria showed me that not all non-groundlings are the arrogant, judgmental beasts I’d always thought them to be. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Tom, for instance, didn’t even know the price of pork and its probable trend. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a landing, for instance, overhung with a mobile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I’ve always known this—lived by it, even—but in this particular instance, I was caught woefully off guard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z For instance, in rocky terrain, he would wedge a branch under a heavy stone and make it roll down a mountain toward his enemies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d picked up affected gestures, putting his hands in his pockets and rattling change, for instance, or doffing his cap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Someone once worked out, for instance, that dimes have a half-life of about 30 years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She keeps saying stuff like, "Kevin, we know you know the answer, because you always know the answer, so wouldn't it be nice if someone else got a chance? For instance, your friend Maxwell?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Like the majority of American law-enforcement officials, Dewey is certain that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime, and he felt that if ever the penalty had been earned, the present instance was it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look here, Pellinore, you must learn to let bygones be bygones. You will only wear yourself out Why don't you be a brave chap and catch your Beast for instance?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday, for instance, after passing the abandoned Indian village, they had heard a noise coming from the trees above. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was friendly, in a treacherous sort of way, smiling into one’s face the while he meditated some underhand trick, as, for instance, when he stole from Buck’s food at the first meal. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, when he was on his tour of the Incandesto! manufacturing facility and had fallen into the vat of Incandesto!, he hadn't said a single word. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z In the 1970s, for instance, researchers used microelectrodes to hone in on a key part of the brain—called the parietal lobe—crucial to shifts in attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And then the next, until I found an instance of Halliday’s house that was unoccupied. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For instance, if a butterfly flaps its wings, it might create just enough wind to throw off a computer’s long-range weather predictions. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z For instance, Mom was ninety-nine percent serious about divorcing Dad if he didn’t come home from jail and get his act together. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Over the years, the list of properties subject to forfeiture expanded greatly, and the required connection to illegal drug activity became increasingly remote, leading to many instances of abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For instance, although she continued to discharge her professional duties with all her usual diligence, her general mood tended to undergo swings of a sort I had hitherto never witnessed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, my acquaintance is always wanting me to show him the way you pinch your nostrils together when you put pepper on your food. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I can’t count the times I’ve wondered if there have ever been any instances of condemned men escaping the relentless machinery, disappearing before the execution or breaking through the cordon of police. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Citra’s investigation was troubling, yet try as he might, Rowan could not find a single instance since he’d been in Goddard’s presence where Goddard did anything that was illegal by scythe law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z For instance, we are regularly told, “James Watt invented the steam engine in 1769,” supposedly inspired by watching steam rise from a teakettle’s spout. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His account is simple and straightforward; Ovid’s extremely verbose—for instance, he takes a hundred lines to kill the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There was, for instance, the question of cost. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Certainly. Claudia, for instance, made the bread basket. And the twins prepared the livers.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke dow'n almost immediately.They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For instance, I had offered myself to El Jefe to do with as he wanted, but I hadn’t extended the same courtesy to God. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If, for instance, you follow the logic of the circle of fifths sequence, you are forced to move into new modes whether you like it or not. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Inept or disreputable companies have on more than one occasion failed to deliver crucial logistical support—oxygen, for instance—as promised. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z For instance, this morning she was saying “Gack!” over and over, which probably meant, “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Plus, you had to have money to chip in for whoever’s gas tank was going to be getting you to and from the party, like, for instance, Carlos. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Like for instance Papa said old man Plunket told him the train hit a mule and a cow at the same time yesterday just outside of Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For instance, I had testified: “I was sleeping on a top bunk and I can recall a couple of occasions when I was taken by my hair and just thrown on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Well, just for fun—suppose I ask the robots from now on a few questions on gamma rays. Wave length limits, for instance.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She knows, for instance, that I smuggle sheets to the Yearlings so they don’t get whipped for wetting their beds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “For instance,” he continues, and I see that he’s in some kind of jazz sneaker, “I run a performing arts studio in Florida, for gifted children. Like my nephew, Shawn.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “For instance, The beer is never dear near here, dear,’ is unfortunate, even as an assonance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My mother would drive all the way across town to buy kosher meat, for instance, only to serve it with a cream sauce. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pash believed that Oppenheimer was either handing secrets directly to the Soviets, “or he may be making that information available to his other contacts”—Jean Tatlock, for instance. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, take the above equation and change the – sign into a + sign. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, we knew the owner, Miss Lilian Willis, had been dead for about ten years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We weren’t taught, for instance, that the architects of apartheid were big fans of Hitler, that the racist policies they put in place were inspired, in part, by the racist policies of the Third Reich. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For instance, I saw a bakery that sold bread that was swan white, something I had never seen before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z You click and a letter appears on the screen, for instance, or a picture comes up, an email opens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "For instance, I know that Angela doesn't want to marry that sappy intern." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the Fertile Crescent, China, and Europe differed in their exposure to the perennial threat of barbarian invasions by horse-mounted pastoral nomads of Central Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mouth, for instance, craved sweets, figs in their heavy syrup, coconut candy, soft golden flans. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But let us come to the second instance, when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city not through wickedness or any other intolerable violence, but with the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Some people—science fiction writers and artists, for instance—have speculated on what other beings might be like. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If that is so, I wonder about Anatole—how the Underdowns got away with putting him in as a schoolteacher, for instance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Forgetfulness of nouns, for instance, or of numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Choosing friends, for instance, often depended upon whether or not I could be invited to their homes, whether their parents would allow this. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, several classic studies with animal models. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, for instance, suppose old Captain Wallace when he was alive didn’t want any visitors.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I think I could give him a few tips from my own professional experience: his peach halves could be glossier, for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew, for instance, that I was going to be an astronomer and one day walk on Mars and maybe even live on the next International Space Station. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Certain facets of a child’s outcome—personality, for instance, or creativity—are not easily measured by data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It never occurred to me, for instance, that I could, or should even want to, live in New York. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Not every president commissioned an official china setting, for instance, but I made sure we did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Of course, all is not total harmony, in every instance, between associates and their servant-leaders. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, she would have liked to be at London—in the Tower perhaps. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I want to tell you this: twenty years ago I watched a man die on a trail near the village of My Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, a merchant marine sailor who knew me and my reputation came into a bar carrying a package. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sciron, for instance, who had made those he captured kneel to wash his feet and then kicked them down into the sea, Theseus hurled over a precipice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If I could spit, out the window, or throw something, the cushion for instance, I might be able to hit him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron glanced at Hermione, clearly hopeful she might soften at this small instance of humor, but her expression remained stony above her tightly knotted limbs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Helen, for instance, had become friends with Janis again, who had happily given birth to a son, Alexander, about Mona’s age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Being able to lick your elbow, for instance. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Using Avogadro’s mathematics, chemists were eventually able to work out, for instance, that a typical atom had a diameter of 0.00000008 centimeters, which is very little indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Look at that film-star for instance," she added, pointing at the silent TV screen where a bosomy female was being embraced by a craggy actor in the moonlight. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the way he first said my name, for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Recently, I discovered, an instance arose where the Negro leaders used their economic leverage in a typical manner. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the Q, A and Z, all of which are hit with the little finger of the left hand, were colored blue to match the blue little finger. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s only in the rare instance that such an exchange ignites a word-of-mouth epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, one time I went to my garage and started to hit the punching bag with my head, then my fists. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A good instance comes in the form of an apocryphal story. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, he wore soft black leather boots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Or, for instance, deciding whether or not to focus on the road or the phone when you’re driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, there is the matter of Mr Harry Smith's pronouncements on the nature of 'dignity'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was another instance, and not the last, of Cavendish intuition and resourcefulness outplaying labs with more soaring ambitions, superior resources, and, perhaps, a touch less vision. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For instance: How would he ever run a restaurant in this neighborhood again? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His favorite thing to do during recess, for instance, was to pretend to be a robot. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The day we were brought here, for instance. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could like a phony book like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or that other one he's so crazy about, The Great Gatsby. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z New York State, for instance, has not as of this writing executed a single criminal since reinstituting its death penalty in 1995. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Gloria’s father was rarely home in the daytime except on Sunday—today, for instance—and when he was, he proved a genial and understanding person. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the beginning, their activities were said to be harmless midnight pranks—for instance, riding horses through the countryside while draped in white sheets and pillowcase hoods. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Here, for instance, is an improvised exchange between two actors in a class that Johnstone was teaching: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There were supposed to be also instances when the spirits returned to the wrong bodies and the person suffered from amnesia. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In both instances, I’d reveled in the soft air on my skin and the simple buoyancy I felt anytime I got close to the ocean. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He says the object of deliberative rhetoric, for instance, is “happiness”—and he therefore sets out to establish what constitutes the good. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Journalists and investigators have documented numerous other instances in which police departments have engaged in illegal shakedowns, searches, and threats in search of forfeitable property and cash. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Adams, usually the more apocalyptic member of the team, in this instance adopted the more sanguine Jeffersonian posture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, for instance, Ted Lavender had a habit of popping four or five tranquilizers every morning. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall, for instance, the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Mama and Papa had never let her criticize kids at school when she was at home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For instance: All five of them seemed unusually accident-prone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was, for instance, the odd attitude to students who’d recently left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I believe in these words I am writing, because they are the truth of what happened to me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Think of disappointment as a happy little surprise, Comfort. For instance...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, in English it’s not obvious how to draw a picture of the common syllable -tion, but we could instead draw a picture illustrating the verb shun, which has the same pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The plot of Aristophanes’ satirical play The Frogs of 405 bc, for instance, like the story of Orpheus and Euridice, concerns a life-or- death poetry and singing competition in the Underworld. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Jane Blunt’s thighs, for instance, seem to get a little bit longer every week. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For instance, the girls have an elaborate system of body clues by which they can tell what kind of a man you’re suited for. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Take the matter of the yellow mule, for instance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z ‘The human bean,’ the Giant went on, ‘is coming in dillions of different flavours. For instance, human beans from Wales is tasting very whooshey of fish. There is something very fishy about Wales.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In other instances he had been annoyingly candid in pointing out where Perutz and Bragg had publicly overinterpreted their hemoglobin results. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Just for instance, her aunt Beppy—the one they say had the power of levitation—died with typhoid fever. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For instance, the greeny-looking clintonia flower bells became beautiful blue berries, but there were so few of those you could search the whole woods and not find enough to string a bracelet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z But this was one instance when she seemed just to cave in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “For instance, while I do think Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don’t think it’s accurate to say, ‘Chuck Norris’s tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.’ Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It seemed to him that this was better than trying to bring them right at once by such courses as, for instance, by cutting off the lovers’ heads for treason. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z However, to turn to Bodanis again, we all commonly encounter other kinds of relativity–for instance with regard to sound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One group I went up to, for instance, somebody was telling that Grandpa was the best knuckle-knocker in school when he was a boy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Just for instance, the next Sunday while she was helping Mama and Queenie take up dinner, Campbell Junior fell all the way down our stairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The black man in the ghettoes, for instance, has to start self- correcting his own material, moral, and spiritual defects and evils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is striking, for instance, how many different professions and disciplines have a word to describe the particular gift of reading deeply into the narrowest slivers of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In one speech,*for instance, he accused an enemy in short order of being a “monster, ” “funeral pyre of the commonwealth,” “butcher,” “scoundrel,” “most foul and inhuman monster,” and “gelded pig.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z For instance, the Catholic youth groups were not allowed to wear uniforms, to take excursions into the countryside, or to print or distribute journals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It also follows that though the past is alterable, it never has been altered in any specific instance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The classic instance you always hear quoted is the following: All men are mortal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Heights, for instance, he didn’t care for very much. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then the occultatio: “I pass over older instances, such as how...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “It not only mocks in most instances the power of medicine, but it has spread thro’ several parts of the city remote from the spot where it originated.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There was something about it that was different from the work one saw nowadays; the manner of finishing the inside of the base, for instance. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z For instance, Raoul’s much ado about nothing comes by way of his father, a failed Shakespearean actor who gave up the dream and started a theater camp for underprivileged children. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For instance, each time we had visitors, my performance at school would come up for discussion, and my father would be quick to point out that I had “inherited his exceptional brain.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me about commas, for instance, long before I took punctuation seriously. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That “crudest month” business, for instance, was something he was always kidding April about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you want to know about me, for instance?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “And she didn’t tell me about Jase. But not just that. When I look back on it, she’s just a terrible friend. I mean, for instance, do you think I’m fat?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I remember her, of course, but by the time I knew her, her exploits—how, for instance, she scrubbed white people’s floors during the day and went to school at night—were legend. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z An opening line on a menu, for instance, was solved by an Army wife who was feeling outclassed by the top talent around her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For instance, none of the eight main founder crops except barley grows wild in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think it would be better for Madame to have a different number altogether. The No. 12, for instance.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For instance, although he can understand his mother tongue, and speak it fluently, he cannot read or write it with even modest proficiency. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, the room in his new lab next to the control center where he’s been examining the brain of the teacher wearing the EEG cap. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “There is much in your constellation that isn’t clear. The snake that sought to protect you, for instance. I don’t suppose you have any idea who that magician might be?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z There was, for instance, a scarcity of hope on Middlesex, where his wife no longer felt any stirrings in her spiritual umbilicus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “He’s on the rag again”—a condition occasioned, in this instance, by the fact that the cook on the morning shift had forgotten to thaw out the steaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Great leadership had emerged in each previous instance to transform the improbable into the inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “No, I wouldn’t! I wouldn’t think I was better than everybody else. I wouldn’t look down on other people who look like me. Take Warren, for instance....” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Regression to the mean is a widespread phenomenon, with instances just about everywhere you look. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Take Beck Weathers, for instance, who at that moment appeared as a tiny red speck on the ice 500 feet below, near the end of a long queue of climbers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was, for instance, a photo of two young women posed before a not-terribly-convincing painted backdrop of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Nay, dear Emma, now I must take his part; for though he has been wrong in this instance, I have known him long enough to answer for his having many, very many, good qualities; and—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z In the streets, for instance, I discovered that New Yorkers never look up at the awe-inspiring buildings towering above them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For instance, if a black hole is spinning or has an electric charge, mathematicians have calculated that the singularity is not a point—a pinpoint hole in space-time—but a ring. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The chocolates, for instance, were good for a dozen assignments. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is scarcely an instance of hypothermic death that isn’t in some measure mysterious and improbable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there’s an international festival coming up in December. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z For instance, she has no twin sets, and views them with contempt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Buster Friendly, for instance, had never mentioned it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Earlier in Malia’s junior year, the two of us had gone to spend a day visiting colleges in New York City, for instance, setting up tours at New York University and Columbia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On Lake Street, for instance, Margaret O’Toole set up her small stand and began selling chestnuts. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The study of a single instance of extraterrestrial life, no matter how humble, will deprovincialize biology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the kabbalah seized upon the idea of the dual nature of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think ‘The Force’ may be working through our pastor, for instance?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For instance, if you have a ball in free fall, it moves in a parabola, while a frictionless spring wobbles back and forth forever, and a spring with friction slowly comes to rest. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He wanted, through his purity and excellence, to be able to perform some ordinary miracle—to heal a blind man or something like that, for instance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He discovered, for instance, that he wasn’t on the class list for two of his courses, and that for one of them, enrollment was already closed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The freckles I hadn’t noticed on his face, for instance, or the way his eyebrows seemed to merge into one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z For instance, you can marry someone who’s an American citizen and receive a green card through your spouse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Most recently, for instance, Professor Pierce had given him, of all things, a book. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrea’s room, for instance, had a bar down one wall for her to use when she practiced dancing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident—a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance—would betray him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For that one instance in time, everything is good in the world. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z For instance, at different times, his wicked tricks included everything from atomic ray guns to sulfur and brimstone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z To understand the parabola, Archimedes had to learn how to measure it; for instance, nobody knew how to determine the area of a section of a parabola. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, imagine that you’ve got a stain on your wood floor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I would know, for instance, if you saw her again, and if you didn’t tell me, I would know that too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there are several pictures of what look like large boulders, beside a lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there was the matter of the Morse code. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z We know, for instance, that Benjamin Rush was alert enough to recognize the disease before it had spread much beyond Water Street and sounded an alert. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For instance: Hudson Clark hadn’t believed in doors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Take all this curiosity about Madame, for instance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I was working on a new story in my head. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to her, America’s spy handlers enjoyed highly secure communication links—far safer, for instance, than those used by America’s diplomats. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the first instance, the officer appears to be describing something that is quite impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For instance: Mrs. Sample, the mender, had to sleep on her couch because her entire bedroom, almost up to the ceiling, was crammed with clothes to be mended. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Pumblechook worked his head like a screw to screw it out of me, and said, “Is forty-three pence seven and sixpence three fardens, for instance?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the statistical description of a gas explains Charles’ law. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I had a ghetto instinct; for instance, I could feel if tension was beyond normal in a ghetto audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Also it smells like he ate something dead, for instance road kill, but maybe that's my imagination. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was the time, for instance, we were sitting around the kitchen table after a long breakfast, Ruth, me and a few veterans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “For instance, you’re supposed to be dead. And you—” He turned to Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Blacks saw Bacon Street as just another instance of being herded into ghettos—overcrowded, isolated from the rest of the city, and lacking in public services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We are working towards the goal of a little garden for each one, each one of you — the clasped hands again, the breathy voice — and that’s just one for instance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They showed them acting in every way as human beings did; walking, for instance, and eating, as Earth and Heaven obviously did not. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then Roy remembered that his father seemed to have a supernatural memory—for instance, he could still recite the batting averages of the entire starting lineup for the 1978 New York Yankees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Mr. Kleiman reported this week that a soccer match was held in the province of Gelderland; one team consisted entirely of men who had gone underground, and the other of eleven Military Policemen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “In here you never wonder what’s going to happen. You know the meals will come in three times a day for instance.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever thought about yawning, for instance? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked two squirrels, for instance, if they knew what lay on the other side of a mountain that rose before me. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Base survival, for instance. Surely you’ve learned this lesson, in all your many travels.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman has taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance. He is rich, is he not?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If he did not profit from his methods it was not his fault, but this arose from an extraordinary and extreme instance of contrary Fortune. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “For instance,” Leon said, dropping the pieces and opening the ledger that was so familiar to everyone at Trinity, the ledger in which the daily sales were recorded. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "For instance," Miss Honey said, "if I asked you to multiply fourteen by nineteen...No, that's too difficult..." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Right now, for instance, she was providing Minerva with an alibi. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From someone else, for instance Janice, the contact would simply be casual, friendly, just a kind of parlance, formless, easy talk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Write using lemon juice as ink, for instance, and the writing will be invisible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In some instances, the SS told the boys to sign papers to verify personal information. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if you are a bank robber—although I hope you aren’t—you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z For instance, he told everyone at school he was dropping out to play double-A ball for the Baltimore Orioles. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My brother will sometimes murmur these initials when there are other people around, my parents for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the biggest names in web development had gone through Insomnia Con: Jenny Lindt, for instance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For instance, neither farming nor herding developed in prehistoric times in North America’s Arctic, while the sole element of food production to arise in Eurasia’s Arctic was reindeer herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this instance, it was the ANC, not the government, that sought to calm the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I spoke to eight thousand students at the University of California, and the press there gave big coverage to what I said of the power and program of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z P. G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves offers what is among the funniest instances of a failure of decorum in all of literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z We compete, for instance, over which of us is in worse shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In many instances, the colonizer forces burned fields and stole or destroyed the foods and seeds the people had stored. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Even when these have been tested and thrown out as illegal by superior courts, they have in some instances continued to be enforced because “they haven’t taken them off the dockets.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Reggie appeared to have a slightly bigger ventricular system, for instance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I remember reading about Pythagoras around this time, and finding some of his ideas curiously appealing—wearing white garments, for instance, or abstaining from foods which have a soul. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Few of us, for instance, can voluntarily do A.U. one, the sadness sign. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Cicero and Quintilian, for instance, both regarded the Greek orators in general—and Demosthenes in particular—as unfunny. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I can’t see her washing out her underpants, for instance, and wringing them in a towel, hanging them on the bathroom towel rack, as I do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, that night he told us about the time he and his first wife almost saw a legendary tornado. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Well then,” said Harry, keen to discuss his theory, “what about information on Dumbledore? The second page of this letter, for instance. You know this Bathilda my mum mentions, you know who she is?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For instance: encouraging Flora to have a second helping of macaroni and cheese. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z It was the first instance in the history of the United States when the US Constitution actually denied rights instead of granting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Such instances are certainly rare, for placing your fate in the hands of thirty prepubes- cent witnesses doesn’t seem like a risk that even the worst teacher would take. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Wise’s and Lay’s salt and vinegar potato chips, for instance, have a DOD of 8. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We begin to feel subconsciously that / is somehow more genteel than me, even in cases where me is the right choice—for instance, after a preposition. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there were funny things like little plugged-up funnels, some gray called pixie-cups and some bright red called British soldiers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There are other colors, pink for instance: pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it’s used for baby girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Why, for instance, do we shave our legs? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But knowing how to read, we quickly learned to recognize signs on buildings: Groceries, Supermarket, Meats & Vegetables, for instance, let us know that there was food inside for the taking. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z For instance, when girls became teenagers in my community, they were often married off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There is Life Drawing, for instance, hanging right now on the gallery wall, Josef preserved in aspic and good enough to eat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Such as, for instance, the matter of Miss Kenton's days off. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z This argument is an instance of the pitfalls that you can encounter in talking about infinity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With my cloaking device engaged, I selected the nearest instance of the city and landed the Vonnegut just outside the wall of its dome, watching my scopes for other ships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “In the fight for civil rights, for instance, there was sometimes violence. Terrible violence. But it eventually led to good as the minds and hearts of people were changed.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z For instance, one can say that a point in a room is seven feet from one wall, three feet from another, and five feet above the floor. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, for instance, maybe we should take the addition off. Take the beam back out.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, for instance, did Singer go away on the train and, when he was asked where he had been, pretend that he did not understand the question? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was reason to suppose that all four had been bound by the same person: in all four instances the same type of knot, a half hitch, was used. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The North American plate, for instance, is much larger than the continent with which it is associated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, that meant all the time, really. Then they finally gave up because they realized that my reading didn’t exactly improve when they frightened me. On the contrary. Take Flatnose, for instance.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, my best friend, Izzy, wasn't allowed to spend the night at my place, because her mom felt there wasn't enough adult supervision in the Saedi home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For instance, the stone sickles, underground storage pits, and other technology that hunter-gatherers of the Fertile Crescent had been evolving to utilize wild cereals were available to the first cereal farmers of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here, for instance, is how you would diagram the sentence In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus married his mother: Oedipus married mother The Reed-Kellogg notation was innovative in its day, but I for one don’t miss it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Tariq was the one who told her, for instance, that militiamen stationed in the mountains sharpened their marksmanship—and settled wagers over said marksmanship—by shooting civilians down below, men, women, children, chosen at random. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It has changed, certainly, and it is now experienced in all sorts of ways that would have surprised, for instance, Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer who died a few months after that historic transmission. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody’s head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For instance, on one show I filled a spoon carefully with water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few instances the charity only lined the pockets of the greedy. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Only in some chimookoman things, his cabin for instance, and his ability to play and win the white man’s game of chess with the trader, did he take secret pride. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z What made my fear all-consuming was the fact that I observed in many instances that my parents and all the other adults who were supposed to protect me were unable to protect themselves. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While reading Plato’s Republic, for instance, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket comments to remind myself what the text was about. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How, for instance, did a new species of animal arise from another species? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A single wedge, for instance, could stand for 1; 60; 3,600; or countless others. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The great joke about Puttenham, though, is that he survives not only for his work on rhetoric but as an instance of its effectiveness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “And what makes you think he hasn’t told Marion, for instance?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For instance, only a few steps from my feet lays a threefoot square of plastic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Here, she had to launch herself into the talking, for instance during a lull, as now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Ralph realized that if he had not called Grover, if he had not remembered the number, if no one had answered, he probably would not have landed up a pondering sort of person. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z ACT, for instance, specified the amino acid Threonine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For instance, the man he had seen by the pool at the Fontainebleau. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you aim to be a princess. Well, everyone has a foolish dream. Gregory, for instance, dreams of a world where soup is legal. And that rat, Gregory is sure, has some foolish dream, too. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Once, for instance, a few of us were going back from the pavilion towards the dorm huts and found ourselves walking behind Tommy and a couple of other boys. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If that’s not confusing enough, some singular nouns that end in s are regarded as pairs—scissors, trousers, tongs, pliers, tweezers, and breeches, for instance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “For instance, did you know there are people in this store—in all department stores, actually—who walk around looking like ordinary customers but are really security police making sure no one is stealing?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z His memory appeared so precise the ordinary person would assume that it was accurate in all instances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anything? Would you, for instance, consider marrying me during tomorrow night’s performance?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z While Smith was establishing a colony at Jamestown, for instance, Pocahontas likely did save his life, although little of the rest of the legend embodied in the Disney cartoon is true. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As this squirm-making instance illustrates all too well, the time to define your terms is in advance, not as part of a rearguard action. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, the number 2.5 is “covered” by a carpet that includes, for example, all the numbers between 2 and 3—a carpet of size 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My definition of a black man was, except for the rare instance, a man without an outstanding career, and a man who had to define his maleness by how muscular he was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He suggests that the challenges induced by tectonics–changes in climate, for instance–were an important spur to the development of intelligence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And I knew that my father’s father was dead and that my uncle Oscar was dead and that my uncle David was dead and that each of these instances was unnatural. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In our state society, for instance, school principals are likely to know all their students by name if the school contains a few hundred children, but not if it contains a few thousand children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, eating in a car might be more likely to cause a crash than not eating. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Normally Africans would receive sandals made from car tires, but in this instance we were given shoes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, other words may get in between the subject and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The lexicon that had been misplaced, for instance: had Henry stolen it, knowing I’d come back for it? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mercury's orbit, for instance, wobbled in a way that disagreed with what Newton predicted, but on the whole, Newton’s theories were tested again and again, and they usually passed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, if we were discussing some future large occasion to be held at the house, I might put in: 'That is, Miss Kenton, assuming you are still with us at that stage.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, at the moment you cannot dig. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It cannot be explained away as an instance of shoemakers’ children going without shoes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if you don’t finish something and want to save it for later, you can’t take it from the dining hall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Few temple meetings were held, for instance, without the minister looking down upon some freshly shaved bald domes of new Muslim brothers in the audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there was a group of girls who loved to tease me and tell me as often as they could that I wasn’t “really Black” because I talked “white” and did well in school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z For instance, what happens when we remove 0? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An enormous amount of work, for instance, went into the mechanism connecting the back of the chair to what chair designers call the seat pan. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I have preferred his treatment to Ovid’s because, in this instance only, it is more detailed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the Washington Post, the women “practically fought their way foot by foot up Pennsylvania Avenue....No inauguration has ever produced such scenes, which in many instances amounted to little less than riots.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “So many questions. For instance, you wear the queue. I’ve read that it is a badge of slavery imposed by conquest by the Manchus on the Southern Chinese.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Under customary procedures, Burnham and the others would have been placed under arrest pending bail, but in this instance even the coroner’s office seemed taken aback. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once, for instance, Washington requested “hard money,” meaning gold or silver, “to pay a certain set of People who are of particular use to us.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But not to the physical stimulus; you’re not measuring dilation, for instance. It’ll be to the verbal questions; what we call a flinch reaction.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z What Bhaskara and others realized was that when you square a positive number, you get a positive number back; 2 times 2 equals 4, for instance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I like to think I make up for the rather significant, err...beauty gap in other ways. Devilish charm and impeccable character, for instance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Aneurisms, for instance; how else could they ever defend him in time against an aneurism of the aorta? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Down it sank to the bottom where, I now noticed, lots of things were collected: other coins, for instance, hairpins, somebody’s old Band-Aid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Fourth of July, for instance. What did you do then?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For instance, one African melon species is so well adapted to being eaten by a hyena-like animal called the aardvark that most melons of that species grow on the latrine sites of aardvarks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But finally I have no idea what I would do if I bumped into her by accident, on the subway for instance, sitting across from me, or waiting on the platform reading the ads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A typical paramecium, for instance, is about two microns wide, 0.002 millimeters, which is really very small. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, a 1999 study that has to do with chocolate cake. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I mean, why do you make your comics, for instance?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For instance, he would eat dinner with Aunt Dot on Monday, with Uncle Dan on Tuesday, and so on. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have enough rumors and hints to have made up a word for the power, but I don’t know of any proven instances of telepathy among us.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The reason may not be the greed of the movie industry in cashing in on the first film’s popularity, but simply another instance of regression to the mean. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, for instance, if the Getty’s kouros was so obviously fake—or, at least, problematic—did the museum buy it in the first place? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For instance, I would be sitting outside at night, and a shiny object would suddenly streak across the sky and vanish mysteriously. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, take the dance, for instance. If Bobby wants to go to the dance with Kelsey—” I start to object. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z They were down in some subterranean place—the bottom of a well, for instance, or a very deep grave—but it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When Brittney talks to you, for instance, you get the feeling she is being polite and showing that she knows how to behave around those less fortunate than herself. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z For instance, playing Ping-Pong on the train, one would find that the ball obeyed Newton’s laws just like a ball on a table by the track. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if all Aboriginal Australian societies were for some reason uniformly resistant to change, that might account for their continued use of stone tools after metal tools had appeared on every other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I would not want our men to assassinate, for instance, the major here,” I said, pointing to Major Fritz van Sittert, who was monitoring the talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In every instance, they have improved the homes they have bought from the whites and built even better ones. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance I bet if I asked you, “What is the toughest stuff on Earth?” you’d say, “Diamonds.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, the latest rumor, which in the months since I was ordained has spread beyond the Scythedom and is whispered among the general population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Alabama and common law pleading, for instance, was a subject so ethereal in nature that Henry passed it only by memorizing the book. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In this instance, the baseball team is using imagery associated with a fighting force organized in the 1800s to attack Indigenous people who were protecting their homelands from white settlers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if we want to find a particular particle, we need to determine the particle’s position and velocity—where it is and how fast it is going. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, he wouldn’t let us ride the city bus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For instance, was there some signature on his brain of the concussions he sustained playing high school sports? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, the earliest known cultivated emmer wheat comes from the Fertile Crescent around 8500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In some instances the mother cannot make enough to support her children, so she sells her sex for what she can get. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein’s theories corrected Newton’s errors; they explained Mercury’s wobble, for instance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Inside the house, for instance, inside a bean basket with the lid on tight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. Was hoping you wouldn’t catch that. And yes, if I weren’t me, if I were you, for instance, Jude, I’d be certain it was a sign.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There’s an instance I can remember from when we were about eleven. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And I was no different: I sincerely hoped Doug got to the top, for instance, yet I would do everything in my power to keep pushing on if he turned around. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z For instance, one of my earliest memories is of the day Lynn saved my life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Kay’s panache, for instance, was shaped like a rigid, flat fan, with its edges pointing fore and aft. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Say for instance, I write, we have a cow and a horse that we love. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z For instance, it was Toby who suggested that they march around the altar, beating their chests and sprinkling their heads with ashes and wailing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, I hated swimming during PE and considered it a basic human right to use my menstrual cycle as an excuse to stay out of the water. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There were a bunch of people—like Maya, for instance—who couldn’t stand her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The individual parts played by other instrumentalists— crickets or earthworms, for instance—may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear them out of context. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When these resources form a critical bottleneck—during a famine, for instance—a variant better adapted for an environment is “naturally selected.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A book about moths, for instance, might be under “M” for moths, or “I” for insects, or “B” for bugs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We had, for instance, some civil servants, some nurses, clerical workers, salesmen from the department stores. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Take for instance that new house of his. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z For instance, at the next table over from her sat Molly and Susan, whispering to each other and giggling. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He glanced at Percy, as if to say: like mysterious Greeks, for instance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For the Romans did in these instances what all wise princes must do: they must be on their guard not only against existing dangers but also against future disturbances, and try diligently to prevent them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Like, Elysium, for instance ...” “Come on, goat boy.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Blowed if I can see where she’s got to . . . she doesn’t seem the type to elope, for instance . . . but still. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, that commodity prized by every chamber of commerce throughout the land — the good will of vacationing tourists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, that Mr. Lyte had a broken front tooth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Notice, for instance, the veneer headboard of the bed, made from “pure cherrywood,” as Milton likes to say, just like the little tree George Washington chopped down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wasn’t allowed to embroider on Sunday, for instance. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, men who say they want a long-term relationship do much better than men looking for an occasional lover. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I honestly can’t remember one single instance where Gabriel ever interacted with Oslo. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z When the family was alone, for instance, they thought nothing of walking around upstairs without any clothes on. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But none of that matters at this very instance. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The word group, for instance, is a term used to describe everything from a basketball team to the Teamsters Union, from two couples on a holiday to the Republican Party. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The preceding paragraph gave examples of blueprint copying, whereas the transfer of Chinese porcelain technology to Europe provides an instance of long-drawn-out idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, imagine a small boy who is throwing stones in all directions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, he explains, you could be gaining weight “and walk past the mirror and get a glimpse of yourself even if you’re not looking at it, and that starts a cascade of self-analysis.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In a traffic stop, for instance, the officer is trained to park behind the car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z To stay in Sagarmatha’s good graces, for instance, no team was permitted to enter the Icefall for the first time without first undertaking an elaborate puja, or religious ceremony. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They landed the Kurosawa next to an instance of the white house that was still deserted. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Like, for instance, the way I just used “moniker” for “nickname.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z His first impulse, for instance, was to get into his car and drive to Ithaca, the nearest big town. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Not many Americans knew how much worse it had been than Hiroshima, for instance. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the lightbulb, for instance, was technically invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1811, but his lightbulb sort of sucked and burned out all the time. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Back then, I knew, for instance, that just outside of Washington, D.C., there was a great enclave of black people who seemed, as much as anyone, to have seized control of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For instance, the renormalization trouble—the infinite mass and charge of the electron—vanishes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She believed she could do anything . . . like holding up the world, for instance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Put two metal plates close together, for instance, and you can’t fit every sort of particle inside. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, imagine that you are measuring the length of a pencil. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Oh, what a lovely landscape!' for instance, or, ‘That’s a very fine castle!’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nobody seemed certain, for instance, just why he was known as the Professor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z That is true, for instance, of the Societies, Samoa, the Marquesas, and especially Hawaii, the Polynesian archipelago with the highest mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was always getting himself into trouble—as, for instance, by unhorsing the Orkneys at Westminster—through underestimating the wickedness of the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A phrase like “well maintained,” for instance, is as full of meaning to an agent as “Mr. Ayak” was to a Klansman; it means that a house is old but not quite falling down. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For instance, people who hate stories in which terrible things happen to small children should put this book down immediately. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z For instance, she loved the “Hymn to Isis” that Melanie had made up almost by herself, with just a little bit of help from a book of Egyptian poetry. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The first instance of organized resistance to the suffragist movement took place in 1871 when Godey’s Lady’s Book published a petition to the US Congress opposing votes for women. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, societies on small Polynesian islands were effectively rather similar to tribal societies with a big-man, except that the position of chief was hereditary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a whole network of Hungarians, for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, without him, I would never have met Gloria Dump. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They knew, for instance, that other children felt pain: wax children never experienced pain, and for this they were grateful. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if I got my hands on the bow and shot someone, my secret would be revealed to all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “If you had some weasels, for instance. Weasels are deadly to basilisks.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even in the paragraphs above, for instance, it seemed natural to talk about traveling through a speech “step by step,” or of traveling through “well-known territory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, California’s native hunter-gatherers initially numbered about 200,000 in aggregate, but they were splintered among a hundred tribelets, none of which required a war to be defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, that girl that was getting water squirted all over her face, she was pretty good-looking. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Take The Great Gatsby, for instance—the woman’s melancholic face against the city lights in the distance is the perfect representation of the quiet misery of that era. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Like, for instance, one time in the playground some older kids made some noises. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “But Mr. Wonka,” he shouted, “can you send other things through the air in the same way? Breakfast cereal, for instance?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z For instance, the hidden messages being sent from the Institute were broadcast only a few times each day, and on a very weak signal. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In instances like these, it’s best to say as little as possible—even just a single word if you can get away with it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They don’t suspect him, for instance, of smoking pot, which he does from time to time when he and his friends get together to listen to records at one another’s homes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, imagine swinging a ball on a string around your head. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, the infinite sum of +1 and –1 does not have a limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, Forrester Research, Inc., was projecting that more than three million service and professional jobs would move out of the country by 2015. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z For instance, two paintings, both of women, one on either side of the fireplace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z No one could confidently say, for instance, when the last ice sheets had retreated or at what time in the past the Cro-Magnon people had decorated the caves of Lascaux in France. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The advisor in Three Kingdoms, for instance, who, needing arrows, floated barges of hay down an enemy-held river. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Madame,” Poirot waved an airy hand, “detectives have to ask all sorts of questions. For instance, perhaps you will tell me the colour of your dressing gown?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, for instance, they don’t need any big excuse to kill someone. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, you knew that Mrs. Harkness would call the police if you stepped on her lawn, and that at Schmitt’s Variety Store you’d get cheated out of small change if you weren’t careful. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In other instances, the Nazis requisitioned the necessary items. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The trees I’d been near, for instance, were pine trees, tall and straight with branches and needles mostly at the top. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Flower color, for instance, had no link with seed texture or stem height. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “For instance, did you know that the ancient Romans used bottles of urine as a refreshing oral rinse? They thought the ammonia in urine would disinfect mouths and whiten teeth.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if I neglect to tell you that I’m four foot eight, feel free to picture me a few inches taller. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Now and then. Not always. For instance, what about Saturday afternoon, November fourteenth? You say you drove to Fort Scott.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance: a plastic banana, glowing a bright and unreal yellow in the dark. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Chief Marshal Williams, for instance, went to the Saturday night fire when the second alarm sounded and stayed until dawn the next day. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Peckleman, please approach the bench, which, in this instance, is actually a desk. Let me see the library card you used to gain access to Community Meeting Room B.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z When you call soldiers “boots on the ground,” for instance, is that not essentially the same thing as calling a car “wheels”? Those distinctions can safely be left to the theorists. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Articulated,” for instance, first indicated a division into small joints, then, effortlessly, signified the speaking of sentences. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in blood, for instance, performs one of the simplest and yet most vital reactions in physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In this particular instance the medicine had proved ineffective; there wasn’t enough enamel left to hook a string on, and the prayers were being ignored because the Balancing Angel was blocking their passage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to tell you. With all that in your favor, what’s going wrong with your job? For instance, today’s B-shift?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Steak, for instance—the very best steak shouldn’t have been more than ten frogs a pound but Lee set it at twelve and a half. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodies that don’t have a liquid core–the Moon and Mars, for instance–don’t have magnetism. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is never easy to prepare a case from prison, and in this instance we were hampered by the customary apartheid barriers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there is no hint that Linear B was used or understood by any Mycenaean Greek beyond small cadres of palace bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I will just take one instance—the first evidence we heard—that of the young MacQueen. He uttered, to my mind, one very significant phrase.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I might point out, for instance, you are still often unsure of what goes where and which item is which.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In this instance, the authorities were willing to call in an outside magistrate because they knew they had an open- and-shut case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I know I need a better plan, but I always forget to come up with one, and I don’t think about it until I’m about to feed Sacred—like right now, for instance. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It would be embarrassing for Otrera if her followers failed in their duties—if, for instance, they were overcome by an outsider and a prison break occurred.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “No, not that. It’s just that I know what other people think—Milton Ashe, for instance.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z What makes them ‘perfect’ is that both have a mathematically pure ‘pitch ratio’; dividing a taut plucked string by exactly two- thirds, for instance, will produce a perfect fifth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A good number of the young people who bought Hush Puppies, for instance, were people who once upon a time wouldn’t have been caught dead in them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, who decided that the first number of one’s genetic index would be Caucasoid? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In some outlying areas, elements of the package arrived at different times: for instance, sheep preceded cereals in southwestern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had no idea, for instance, that the Qur’an was filled with the same people as the Bible—Moses, Mary, Abraham, Pharaoh, even Jesus. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It is the first reported instance of the Atlantic Ocean freezing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I zeroed in on the first instance of the building I saw and headed straight for it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This weekend, for instance, I should have been studying for my math test, but Dad and I went bowling and I just never got around to doing that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z For instance, lots of fishing captains won’t let you bring a ripe banana on board because they believe it’s bad luck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Though he disliked Crup, for instance – but not liking someone was different, it wasn't hating, and he had a way of dealing with Crup, now. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z For instance, why did printing spread explosively in medieval Europe after Gutenberg printed his Bible in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What I am now describing, incidentally, is one of many instances I could relate to you to underline Lord Darlington's essentially shy and modest nature. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the speed at which a device delivers information can dictate how drawn we are to it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For instance, I once had occasion to ask him if a certain gentleman expected at the house was likely to be accompanied by his wife. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, I thought not. You have not asked me, for instance, what is my favorite flavor of jam, to check that I am indeed Professor Dumbledore and not an impostor.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, my duty in this instance was quite clear, and as I saw it, there was nothing to be gained at all in irresponsibly displaying such personal doubts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There was an instance where five whites charged $43 to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it downstairs to a waiting wagon. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For instance, Axel knows that Nancy didn’t really want to move to Pennsylvania. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, for instance, you know that your mistress sent for you last night?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew exact instances when he’d consulted his wife about military strategy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The custom endured, nonetheless, of referring to the head of the family as The Took, and of adding to his name, if required, a number: such as Isengrim the Second, for instance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For instance, she would say, “How long should I work for?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For instance, right before I had my motorcycle accident I saw the whole thing happen: saw it in my mind-—the rain, the skid tracks, me lying there bleeding and my legs broken. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think the Sixers would be foolish enough to try to barricade all 512 instances of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An abridged book, for instance, is a condensed version. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The orderings are marked with an A or a B to indicate in which instances these strategies result in her getting her first choice. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Before hanging up, he always asked if I needed anything—money, for instance—but I never said yes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For instance, the simple equation 4x – 12 = 0 describes how an unknown number x is related to 4, 12, and 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, in 1975 I was crowned Little Miss Central Florida Tire and received a check for one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She said it was entirely possible, for instance, that Estha could grow up to be a Male Chauvinist Pig. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He told his cousin Fox, for instance, knowing that he was religious, that he didn’t think the book would convert him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning recently, for instance, she was out on the deck like usual drinking her tea and when I got closer I saw that she’d floated up into the air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Decorum, therefore, is a tricky quality to instance: when it is there, you don’t see it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For instance, with the fall of Mycenaean Greek civilization, around 1200 B.C., Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, who their suppliers were. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z |
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