How to Use elucidate in a Sentence

elucidate

verb

• When asked for details, he declined to elucidate further.
• Colleen Webb agreed that the specifics of spread in cattle need to be elucidated.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 June 2024
• Their blooms elucidate the first warm day of the season as not just a feeling, but a fact.
  — Sara Tardiff, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Signals of changes in the climate are harder to elucidate in these blazes.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• Now, a new study of the scroll is elucidating some of the methods that kept it intact for millennia.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
• The author elucidates other tales such as the Tower of Babel.
  — Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
• This reading of the video elucidates a visual metaphor: The sand in the video and the rugs in the room are etched with crosshairs, evoking the ever-present danger of gun violence in America.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
• The team’s findings add to, rather than elucidate, the mysteries surrounding the canvas.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2019
• These plans elucidate the facts about the local species, its threats, and measures of conservation.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• To cut to the chase, Taylor elucidates that there was a quid pro quo in the Trump administration’s conduct of relations with Kyiv.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Oct. 2019
• Astronomers hope that studying bursts that repeat their flashes, rather than just flare once, can help to elucidate the origins of FRBs.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• Joe elucidated his view that New York was the industry’s one and only mecca.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• But a closer reading elucidates what that brand always was.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Maloney has an uncanny ability to recall and elucidate moments that couldn’t have been very clear at the time.
  — Chris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• Stephanie Wickens, writing for Healthista last year, elucidates a bit more clearly how the world Rowling created pushed her to learn to read.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 27 June 2017
• Woodpiles are one of the most mundane yet elucidating details O’Connor has studied.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2017
• Dialect is used not to define but to elucidate character.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• And get there early to hear Zander’s lucid and elucidating introduction to the program, which will be like getting fit with a fresh pair of ears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• James Bardeen, who helped elucidate the properties and behavior of black holes, setting the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics, died on June 20 in Seattle.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2022
• One suspects that the points Sankoff and Hein sought to elucidate precluded any more comprehensive portrayal of the conflicts and tensions that must have arisen.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Is unfit to protect government of the people, by the people, for the people as elucidated in the Gettysburg Address.
  — NBC News, 17 July 2019
• The team wants to perform further tests to elucidate the physical aspects of the artifacts, including the composition of the ink and the production of the parchment.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2020
• Climate response time is one of the important 'details' that climate models help to elucidate.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
• There’s some odd emotional connection between the two, one Shyamalan tries to elucidate in flashbacks to a hunting trip that a younger Casey took with her father and uncle.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 19 Jan. 2017
• Pinterest declined to elucidate whether the difference was due to rounding.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• If your marketer or team does not focus on the brand promise and elucidate it in the brand experience and messaging, then your branding means nothing to your customers.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The Verge claims to have gotten its hands on Netflix internal documents which elucidate some of the ways in which the company attempted to mitigate the damage caused by Cuties.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 28 Oct. 2021
• Some of them have already been clearly elucidated by John Gruber back in November, 2018.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 24 July 2019
• Over 2,800 projects are still under way, and UK Biobank aims to collect more data as its participants age, which Collins hopes could elucidate late-life diseases like dementia.
  — TIME, 2 May 2024
• In this spirit, studies of urbanization in birds, including my research, are usually designed to elucidate its detrimental effects.
  — Anders Brodin, Scientific American, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024