Sentence examples for looking for instance from inspiring English sources

Carl is not realistic looking, for instance, but has square features: fingertips, face, liver spots.

To do the job, the glasses first emit an infrared beam that bounces off the object at which the person is looking, for instance, a book.

After six months of looking, for instance, Ms. Haigh fantasizes about switching to a branch office in Boston, Chicago or Baltimore, where, she says, "downtown is 18 minutes away and the houses are gorgeous".

Mr. Travers never told stories and had little to say at dinner, but if he came upon you looking, for instance, at the fieldstone fireplace he might say, "Are you interested in rocks?" and tell you how he had searched and searched for that particular pink granite, because Mrs. Travers had once exclaimed over a rock like that, glimpsed in a road cut.

They discovered that their discipline had been measuring biodiversity with a very narrow lens: looking, for instance, at habitats only in a particular region of the ocean, or at the rise or decline of a particular species, and usually with respect to benchmarks that had been set just decades earlier.

Scholars suggest further research into behavioural change, looking for instance at the context and contingencies that keep electricity consumers in existing routines or getting them out of their routines [37].

He was looking for instances in which a certain sign "caused" an increased risk of a particular ailment.

If you are looking for instances of doping in hockey, you would struggle to come across it.

I searched the database, looking for instances in which the term "Wall Street" was used alongside one of these terms: "occupy," "protest" or "demonstration".

He analyzed mortgage securities made up of loans by Countrywide Financial, which is now owned by Bank of America, looking for instances when the second lien was still extant, even though the first lien attached to the same property had been modified.

Nearby, Sunita Kumari, 26, checks taxi invoices received by Satyam, looking for instances where the company might have been overbilled.