take as an example

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So take, as an example, the operation that was mounted in 2011 to take down Bin Laden.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2016

But I will take as an example any point in the prosecutor's speech.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Let us take as an example one piece that was on view this summer at a well-known place in London where embroidery is sold.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

We will take as an example the most difficult head to cast — a horned head — considering that, if we do this correctly, all others will be easy enough.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

We may take as an example what was perhaps the most famous statue of antiquity, the Aphrodite by Praxiteles at Cnidus.

From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Gardner, Ernest Arthur