Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
Occasion; order of occurrence.
That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
To give an example.
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Instance Quotations
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
James Madison
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
Instance Translations
instance in German is Beispiel, Vorgang, Beispiel, Gelegenheit, Instanz
instance in Latin is nam
instance in Norwegian is eksempel
instance in Spanish is ejemplar
instance in Swedish is exempel
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