Sentence examples for fine instances from inspiring English sources

Sex is "just a hug in motion," he silently protests, "a bloodless piece of body friction," one of the novel's many fine instances of Haig's wit.

And so another fine instance of British bathos bites the dust.

Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate) is a fine instance of the new school of landscape-writing pioneered by Robert Macfarlane, vividly charting a slice of Sussex.

But it's also interesting as a fine instance of a strikingly newish kind of thing: the serious and even scholarly biography of a much gossiped-over pop figure, where the old Kitty Kelley-style scandal-sheet bio is turned into a properly documented and footnoted study that nonetheless trades on, or at least doesn't exclude, the sensational bits.

The drought is a fine instance of the argument that just because you can buy something – in this case, as much water as you like, even with penalty pricing – doesn't mean you should.

She believed shoplifting was totally fine, for instance.

A lot of gun owners are perfectly fine, for instance, with universal background checks.

But sometimes our feelings conflict: a minority feel that it is perfectly fine, for instance, to push the fat man into the path of the trolley.

It does fine, for instance, in a conifer forest, without rich acorns and beechnuts; in such an environment the grays will leave for a better habitat elsewhere.

Cian was diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum last year, and although he can keep up with his peers in some areas – his number skills are fine, for instance – he didn't eat independently until he was four and his motor skills are poor.

Each violation of federal law can result in up to a $1,000 fine per instance.