A night at sea east of New York, just one example (8)
I believe the answer is:
anything
'one example' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'a night at sea east of new york' is the wordplay.
'at sea' indicates an anagram.
'east of' means one lot of letters go next to another (some letters go to the right of others).
'new york' becomes 'ny'.
'night' with letters rearranged gives 'thing'.
'thing' after 'ny' is 'nything'.
'a'+'nything'='ANYTHING'
'just' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anything that I've seen before include "An unspecified item" , "Musical by 14" , "Musical - statement of permissiveness" , "- - Goes (mus.)" , "------- Goes, Cole Porter musical" .)