| 1 | You were too busy making an example out of her to find the key that she left with me. | |
| 2 | "It will be like killing the monkey to scare the chickens, " he said while stroking his pet cat, Little Sister Big Eyes. | |
| 3 | That's when he decided that he would throw the slave into a cage with a lion in the middle of the town square2 to set an example. | |
| 4 | The Romans "made examples" of criminals to deter crime -- hence their use of public crucifixion. | |
| 5 | The Federal Reserve and Treasury decided to let Lehman fail and set a "moral hazard" example: from now on, you can't rely on Uncle Sam to bail you out. |