Examples of your own ideas. Example number one. My grandmother’s recipe box was our most cherished family heirloom. Example number two. Emily Dickinson’s poetry resonates with my personal feelings of alienation. Example number three. The US should have boycotted the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Example of a sentence that may not be your own idea. From reading reviews of the show, it’s clear that Breaking Bad is meant to be a cautionary tale; however, its characters are too likable to allow the viewer to judge them from a moral distance.