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How to use instructive in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective, noun

Instructive means conveying knowledge, information or instruction. Example: “Well, that was an instructive lesson.”

Examples of instructive by meaning

adjectiveConveying knowledge, information or instruction.

  • Well, that was an instructive lesson.

More sentences with instructive

  • An instructive example of a heterotic individual is ʽThe Toast of Botswana’.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 159. From the entry heterotic
  • These definitions delineate the main features of autotrophism versus heterotrophism but some supplementary points are instructive.2013, C. H. Werkman, P. W. Wilson, Bacterial Physiology, page 362. From the entry autotrophism
  • Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs.2007 June 18, Time. From the entry frenemy
  • "You'll find it very instructive, Malone, as bearing upon psychic photography and other matters."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry psychic photography
  • The legendary history of the royal and priestly family of the Cinyrads is instructive.1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, page 25. From the entry Cinyrad
  • It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams.1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, page 301. From the entry concomitant
  • But the halfheartedness of his acquiescence is instructive.2025 July 20, Matthew Walther, “Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry halfheartedness
  • During the nineteenth century battues for large carnivores were quite frequently narrated as instructive stories about the organization of the hunt.2017, Karin Dirke, “Changing Narratives of Human: Large Carnivore Encounters in Nineteenth-century Sweden”, in Tuomas Räsänen, Taina…. From the entry battue
  • The principal will be so nonaloof that he becomes instructive.2008, B. Shouriamma, Education Administration, page 91. From the entry nonaloof
  • It is instructive to compare the Thersitean critique of communal identity with the narratives of an emergent English nationalism.2005, Simon Barker, Shakespeare's Problem Plays. From the entry Thersitean
  • "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VI, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC…. From the entry jibe
  • To get an intuitive feeling for the characteristics of H'-spaces, it is instructive to consider an important class of such spaces, the suspensions.2012, H. Rasmussen, “Strategy-proofness of Continuous Aggregation Maps”, in Geoffrey M. Heal, editor, Topological Social Choice: With 45…. From the entry suspension
  • The assimilation of sentences to pictures does not only carry advantages, it also raises difficulties, a close examination of which is instructive for our purposes.2012, Paul Gochet, Outline of a Nominalist Theory of Propositions, →ISBN. From the entry exegeticist
  • A decade or more later, it is instructive to consider the status of both feminist and gender-critical approaches to the study of religion.2004, Randi R. Warne, “New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America”, in Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne…. From the entry gender-critical
  • To this the Bible offers an instructive counterexample, since keeping the difference flexible and ramifiable is exactly part of its ideopoetic business.1999, Meir Sternberg, Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature, →ISBN. From the entry ramifiable
  • PULFRICH, of Zeiss's, has invented a new kaleidograph which gives perfect images of the pretty and instructive figures as seen in the ordinary kaleidoscope.1915, Wilson's Photographic Magazine - Volume 52, page 61. From the entry kaleidograph
  • The difference between a superexploited black man in the US, or a superexploited Spaniard in Switzerland and a superexploited colonial worker in pre-independence Nigeria is instructive.1991, Hillel Ticktin, The Politics of Race: Discrimination in South Africa, page 76. From the entry superexploit
  • One of the most instructive attractions on the Midway is the scenograph of the Johnstown Flood, which vividly illustrates one of the most appalling catastrophes in our country's history.1900 September, Transportation, page 22. From the entry scenograph
  • If we widen the search for evidence to take in the undated, but Hellenistic, inscriptions recording the presence of Berytians, the picture is less restricted geographically, but equally instructive commercially.1991, John D. Grainger, Hellenistic Phoenicia, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry Berytian

Meaning of instructive

  1. adjective Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
  2. noun A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

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Questions about instructive in a sentence

How do you use instructive in a sentence?
Instructive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Well, that was an instructive lesson.”
What is a short sentence with instructive?
“Well, that was an instructive lesson.”
What does instructive mean?
Instructive means conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

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