Example sentences for: illustrate

How can you use “illustrate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 1 In addition, the terrorist attacks of September 11 illustrate the importance of having timely information from others on threats and possible precursors to an attack.

  • Our results are summarized in Figure 4, where we schematically illustrate the important interactions at A-4 and A-10 in the context of the structure of the whole translational operator.

  • Here we focus on examples that illustrate the utility of the probability mapping approach.

  • The two stories further illustrate the unease, even hostility, that blacks have tended to feel about their folklore, and about black history generally: In "That I Had the Wings," Riley, a young black boy Ellison uses in several stories, hates his Aunt Kate and wishes she "had died back in slavery times"; in "Flying Home," the black pilot who seeks escape hates the black farmer who rescued him after his crash.

  • Citations are particularly important in dictionaries of new words, not only in establishing a dated record, but to furnish context and thereby more clearly illustrate actual use--essential for words that are by nature unfamiliar.


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