Instance in a sentence as a noun

This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.

I also worked for other large companies, like, for instance, Microsoft.

Setting up a WordPress blog and configuring a basic Apache instance?

What I wouldn't do was continue running on an instance that had been exploited and assume I'd successfully cleaned it up.

Take for instance the word "addict", which like the word "war" is such a broad term that it doesn't have much meaning on it's own without further clarification.

Instance in a sentence as a verb

It doesn't matter that the app you lost was the testing instance of a status dashboard with no real data in it, because the exploit coughs up shell access on that server.

For instance, spking's post is lamenting a self-inflicted anxiety about how his life appears from an external perspective.

Take this assertion, for instance:"The NSA copy of my emails won't be viewed by police or FBI investigating me about ********* use, for instance.

Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred.

Maybe someone more versed in the state-of-the-art can help me: has the concept of "speciation" ever been applied to genetic algorithms?In my instance, there are two predominant "types" of cars that are doing approximately equally well--the "rhinoboat" and the "assdragger".

Instance definitions

noun

an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"

See also: case example

noun

an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"

See also: example illustration representative

verb

clarify by giving an example of

See also: exemplify illustrate