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Plural of example

regular plural

The plural of example is examples.

Forms of example

Singularexample /ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl/
Pluralexamples /ɪɡˈzɑːmpl̩z/
Countablecountable

Examples in a sentence

  • Phrases such as officer-involved shooting are often criticized as examples of passive voice.From the entry passive voice
  • The "four rules" of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are examples of binary operations.From the entry binary operation
  • There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.From the entry dozen
  • Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.From the entry snark
  • Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes.From the entry haploid

Meaning of example

  1. noun Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
  2. noun Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
  3. noun Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).

Full definition of example

Questions about the plural of example

What is the plural of example?
The plural of example is examples.
Is example countable?
Example is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: example (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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