such as

such as

1. For example.

   Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/23/mexico-insect-cuisine-sustainable-food Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

2. Like, of the kind mentioned.

   I was never in a country such as that.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

3. (formal) Those who.

   Such as have already done their work may leave.

In the sense of “for example”, such as is preferred to like in formal writing.

• (for example): for example, for instance, e.g., like (informal)

• as such