The standard example is probably the natural numbers $(\mathbb{N}; +,\times,<,0,1)$ (or a variant thereof). The set of formulas $$\\{x>1, x>1+1, x>1+1+1, ...\\}$$ (which uses no parameters whatsoever) is consistent but has no realization.
In general, it's often helpful to find some "finiteness" property which elements of the structure have; such finiteness properties probably aren't first-order expressible, and so indicate how to find failures of saturation.