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• He gave us a comparative example to illustrate how the human mind works.From the entry comparative
• The corpus was searched for clauses and nonclauses that illustrated the relevant property.From the entry nonclause
• Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated children's books.From the entry Beatrix
• A smoke ring persists for a surprisingly long time, illustrating the slow rate at which viscosity dissipates the energy of a vortex.From the entry smoke ring
• I'd seen this stock photo in memes a hundred times, but yesterday I saw it in the wild, illustrating a magazine article.From the entry in the wild
• "There are studies that illustrate how kindness spreads through social networks in measurable ways.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR. From the entry measurable
• Common examples cited to illustrate this point are twenty-four hour clocks and twelve-month calendars.2024, Bernard K. Means, “Ring-shaped Settlements and Exploratory Circular Statistics: A Graphical Approach”, in Martin Menz, Analise…. From the entry 24-hour clock
• Table 5 illustrates the top 10 keywords and hashtags associated with the classified categories.2023 March, Mohammad Abuhassan, Tarique Anwar, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Hannah K. Jarman, Adrian Shatte, Chengfei Liu, Suku Sukunesan…. From the entry edtwt
• This illustrates that this extra piece of information does not fundamentally simplify minesweeper.2022, Alex Thieme, Twan Basten, “Minesweeper is Difficult Indeed!: Technology Scaling for Minesweeper Circuits”, in Mariëlle Stoelinga…. From the entry minesweeper
• They began with an equaliser that again illustrated how ruthless their attacking play can be.2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian. From the entry supremely
• Null illustrates, the cheerleaders for iatrocide are yelling “We're Number One!”2019, Robert G. Wright, Killing Cancer - Not People, page 316. From the entry iatrocide
• The significant influences of the functional load parameters on free vibrations are illustrated first.2019 May 14, Shang-mao Ai (艾尚茂), Li-ping Sun (孙丽萍), “The effect of functional loads on free spanning pipeline’s VIV response”, in Journal…. From the entry functional load
• These Lomekwian tools, such as the one illustrated in Fig. 3.1, were an earth-shattering find.2017, Christina De La Rocha, Daniel J. Conley, Silica Stories, Springer, page 31. From the entry Lomekwian
• His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits.2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53. From the entry jizz
• The beneficial effects of base-station densification, highly directional sectorization, and frequency hopping are illustrated.2015, Don Torrieri, Salvatore Talarico, Matthew C. Valenti, “Performance Analysis of Fifth-Generation Cellular Uplink”, in arXiv. From the entry sectorization
• The limitations of eutelic organisms illustrate the merits of the normal plan of reproduction by cell division.2014, Jean Brachet, Alfred E. Mirsky, Meiosis and Mitosis: Biochemistry, Physiology, Morphology. From the entry eutelic
• Exercise 61, p. 60, illustrates the case where a subduction is not everywhere a local subduction.2013, Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour, Diffeology, American Mathematical Society, page 59. From the entry subduction
• Winter’s task was to illustrate cougars—also known as mountain lions—in an urban environment.2013 November 14, Alexa Keefe, Steve Winter, “A Cougar Ready for His Closeup”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 01…. From the entry cougar
• My example illustrates how circularity can arise in arguments that appeal to experiment.2013, Alan Chalmers, What is this thing called Science?, University of Queensland Press, page 36. From the entry need not
• We illustrate the difference between the two notions by a simple example.2011, Alexander Kulikov, Nikolay Vereshchagin, editors, Computer Science – Theory and Applications […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry supergroup
• The technique for making angel food cupcakes and chiffon cupcakes illustrates another type of mixing.2011 June 24, Elinor Klivans, Cupcakes!, Chronicle Books, →ISBN. From the entry angel food
• On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue.2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry purple
• I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use.2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023. From the entry perpetually
• They illustrate a venerable controversy: are we looking at unicorns, or bicorns in profile?2009, Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, published 2010, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry bicorn
• Nothing illustrates Orwell's ambivalence towards cultural Marxism more powerfully than his writings on literature.2009, Philip Bounds, Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell, →ISBN. From the entry cultural marxism
• A thinbladed chisel as illustrated here is ideal for making the cut.2009, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Understanding Plant Reproduction, Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Limited, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry thinbladed
• This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours.2007, Evelyn M. Field, Bully Blocking, page 17. From the entry banter
• As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter.2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature. From the entry misencounter
• Figure 9 illustrates DgammaDtime of an option with respect to varying asset price and time to maturity.2006, Paul Wilmott, The Best of Wilmott 2, page 38. From the entry DgammaDtime
• The table illustrates how easily a chemical standard can be misflavored by impurities.2006, Morten C. Meilgaard, B. Thomas Carr, Sensory Evaluation Techniques, page 15. From the entry misflavor
• FIG. 17 illustrates a potential synthetic pathway for the synthesis of triisopropylsilyloxycarbonylleucomethylene blue.2005, Robert F. Thompson, Neil Exter, Yannis Bakos, Richard A. Minns, Larry Takiff, Limited play optical devices with interstitial…. From the entry triisopropylsilyloxycarbonylleucomethylene blue
• Force-displacement plot of a cervical facet capsule failure intension, illustrating the joint failure event and subcatastrophic failures.2005, Charles Richard Clark, Edward C. Benzel, Cervical Spine Research Society. Editorial Committee, The Cervical Spine (Lippincott…. From the entry subcatastrophic
• But he does illustrate how the informational context can influence the interpretation of various sorts of adjectives.2005, Thomason, Richard H., Contextual Effects on Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox: A Preliminary Study, retrieved 11 Feb 2026, page 2 of…. From the entry devagueify
• I ask all the students to pre-prepare four or five points that will illustrate their argument individually.2004, Kate Exley, Reg Dennick, Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond, page 72. From the entry pre-prepare
• A quick internet search for information on back pain illustrates the problem.2002, Steven B. Kayne, “Practice and Delivery of CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine]”, in Complementary Therapies for…. From the entry cyberchondriac
• For example, footprints to illustrate walking or sawing wood for snoring.2002, Katherine Koppenhaver, Attorney's Guide to Document Examination, page 253. From the entry metagraphy
• The range in orientation of DLF digital libraries is illustrated by data from the DLF survey.2002, Daniel I. Greenstein, Suzanne Elizabeth Thorin, The Digital Library: A Biography, page 2. From the entry DLF

Meaning of illustrate

1. verb To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
2. verb To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
3. verb To shed light upon.

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Questions about illustrate in a sentence

How do you use illustrate in a sentence?

Illustrate is used as a verb. For example: “We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.”

What is a short sentence with illustrate?

“Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated children's books.”

What does illustrate mean?

Illustrate means to clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.