Sentence examples for cautionary instance from inspiring English sources

They're full of restless women who want a lot more from life than sexual satisfaction, although they want that, too, and they walk away from difficult men at least as often as they swoon -- or, in one cautionary instance, die -- for them.

The plight of heroines such as Lucia or Amina in La Somnambula she saw as cautionary instances of what happens when the boundaries of truth and illusion become blurred.

Lee Monroe is a cautionary example.

China is a cautionary example.

It's cautionary example time.

Libya has become a cautionary case.

Boeing is a cautionary example.

Take, for instance, the cautionary tale of Jimmy Carter, whose presidency, it is often said, was felled by inflation, or maybe Iranian hostage-takers or gas shortages, depending on who is doing the eulogizing.

In Midwestern primary schools, I read aloud my cautionary little monstrous fable, for instance, about nose-picking, that left the teachers with straining smiles and 80 semi-hysterical grossed-out kids to be calmed down after I departed.

Journalism history is full of cautionary tales about ill-fated instances of jumping the gun – whether the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in The Chicago Tribune or, much more recently, the many newspapers and cable networks that got the presidential results wrong in 2000.

In the case of partisan gerrymandering, Seabrook offers a cautionary tale, demonstrating that there are many instances when the line drawers should be careful what they implement.