The phrase "as a kind of example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to illustrate a point or provide a specific instance to clarify your statement.
Example: "Many animals exhibit unique behaviors; dogs, as a kind of example, are known for their loyalty and companionship."
Alternatives: "for instance" or "as an illustration".
The tanker's poisonous shipment has become notorious as a kind of African Bhopal, an example of a multinational corporation's negligence in the third world.
"I see late de Kooning, for example, as a kind of cartooning," he says.
She describes the great South Carolina writer, planter and Anglican clergyman Charles Woodmason, for example, "as a kind of 18th-century Frasier Crane".
The former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, for example, ran as a kind of boutique candidate for the Wyoming mutual-fund operator Foster Friess.
Sometimes it can even act as a kind of insulation from negative press -- think, for example, of the recent scandals enveloping Google and Facebook.
Whittlesey uses the chocolate for properties you may have overlooked, like its bitterness with the venison, for example, or as a kind of cocoa butter to add fat and texture to a wild striped bass tartare.
For example, ribosome as a kind of organelle serves as translation vehicle in cells, which may somehow take part in the translation regulation.
As an example, a kind of unfairness that makes sense to us is cheating - which need not be taking more than one's share: it may be a matter of departing from agreed rules.
The findings are consistent with his own study, Hanna noted, and also serve as an example of a kind of "feedback that can actually amplify the climate warming over that region," he said.
However, focusing qualitative investigations on the implementation gap of public policies can obscure the positive cases and thereby create a kind of negative bias, as happened, for example, in Burkina Faso [ 27].
