The phrase "an admirable example" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that serves as a model of excellence or a standard to aspire to.
Example: "Her dedication to community service is an admirable example for all of us to follow."
Alternatives: "a commendable instance" or "a worthy model".
His "An den Mond" was made an admirable example of simple singing line, and the wondrous "An die Musik" at the end was rescued from the lugubrious dragging tempos so often visited on it.
The designed field emitter provided an admirable example for FE applications.
(This is, indeed, an admirable example of another buzz-phrase: "customer-oriented management").
If her goal is to foster a classroom of enthusiastic learners, Harper sets an admirable example.
The EvoKE team, whom we interviewed recently, is an admirable example of this2.
In 2007, Mr. Harper's government set an admirable example of decency.
Whether in her accentuation of individual steps or the sense of dramatic involvement with which she shapes entire roles, Ms. Pickard is an entirely admirable example of a dancer who has learned to make the most of herself.
Like, say, the pro-life sentiments of Sargent Shriver (to choose a similarly admirable example from the Democratic side), Colson's prison work served as a kind of countersign — a public reminder that his belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ shaped his public commitments rather than the other way around.
Plus there is a fascinating sense of role-reversal – in this hemisphere at least, after our Athers and our Stewie and our furious Nasser – to see an Australian captain in charge of a reconstructive team leading by admirable example.
If only, I thought at the time, more politicians would follow this admirable example.
Modern France would do well to follow its own admirable example and truly treat Muslim citizens as equal participants in society.
