The phrase "as a better example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to introduce a more suitable or illustrative example to clarify a point.
Example: "Many animals exhibit unique behaviors; as a better example, consider the way dolphins communicate with each other."
Alternatives: "for a clearer illustration" or "as a more fitting example".
The invasion of Iraq came after the "shock and awe" of American missile strikes, and left foreign soldiers in a country with little Iraqi or international political support.For those with an irresistible drive for simple comparisons I would recommend George Bush senior and his failure to provide air-cover for the Shia insurrection after the first Gulf war as a better example.
An automobile is perceived as a better example of vehicle than a rowboat, and much better than an elevator; a carrot is more readily identified as falling under the concept vegetable than a pumpkin.
If that were so, then we may come to view the coral reef as a better example of an organism than either the polyps or zooanthellae, as the reef enjoys a kind or degree of complex, functional integrity that polyps and zooanthellae arguably lack (cf. also Combes 2001).
Instead, the authors offer Spock's self-sacrifice in The Wrath of Khan as a better example of the Übermensch.
Long gone are the days when we were not going to engage in the speculative excesses of the 1930s, the days when we could build anything, lead the world as a better example of democracy and tolerance, and when Ted Williams didn't need a needle in his butt to take the hide off a baseball screaming into outer orbit faster than Sputnik.
But to be effective it must continue to engage China as well as set a better example with it's own behavior in cyberspace.
As much as she wants to set a better example for her kids, Sharon would never have quit using drugs on her own: she likes, and needs, to be loaded too much.
I'm thrilled for Gina Rodriguez, and another Julia Louis-Dreyfus win would have been just as deserved, but there wasn't a better example of television acting in 2014 than Kudrow.
On this International Day of the Girl we celebrate women and girls all over the world and work towards how we as women can set a better example of leadership.
But Massachusetts voters stuck with him, and in the last 15 years Mr. Kennedy seemed to get a much firmer grip on his personal life, not least in an effort to set a better example as the patriarch of the Kennedy clan.
We owe it to our community to spend our political capital wisely, to set a better example as responsible adults and to secure for our gay youth a brighter future.
