How to Use illustrate in a Sentence

illustrate

verb

• The students will write and illustrate their own stories.
• Please give a few examples to illustrate your point.
• The results illustrate how important it is to wear your seatbelt.
• He illustrated his lecture with stories of his own experiences in the field.
• Vivid frescoes in some parts of the home leave little to the imagination, and illustrate some of the more lurid business practices that took place under its roof.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
• Boeing used the examples of Bel Air and Baldwin Hills to illustrate his point.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Still, the five courses feel authentically Icelandic and further illustrate the culinary strides the country has made over the past few years.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2023
• Hannah-Jones also delves into the lives of her family to help illustrate the fate of American workers.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Sales in the energy sector illustrate the robust increase in energy commodity prices.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• This is intended to illustrate the bidirectional nature of mirroring.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Such controversies illustrate one of the biggest hurdles for nascent Chinese brands targeting the overseas market: the perception that their goods are cheap, shoddy or fake.
  — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Chase walks us through it, with clips and outtakes and footage to illustrate his points.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2024
• There is a marked difference in the first act, which illustrates just how young Lil Nas X still is.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2024
• Hollywood spent a huge part of last year on strike to illustrate this very point.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
• To illustrate the power of prompts, Miller turned to gift-giving.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 10 May 2023
• And so to see that dramatic turn, to me, illustrated two things.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• The show is based on the graphic novels of the same name written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Phone calls, text messages, emails and a photograph that illustrate the case against him.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• No stat better illustrates the sorry state of the program at that time.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• Each of the 32 cards is illustrated with an animal and comes with a matching squishy friend.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 7 Feb. 2024
• This game illustrated the impact Lindor has on the Mets.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• See five charts that illustrate the current state of the housing market.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Games like this illustrate how good Kansas can be at defense when the team is fully locked in and focused.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• Nothing illustrated that more than the times Booth was on the floor with 6-9 Anna Smrek.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• To illustrate, the port noted in a statement that the project would cut emissions by the equivalent of removing 2,770 cars from the roads each year.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Recent polls have illustrated the erosion in support for Biden from 2020 to this year.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 24 July 2024
• The images illustrate that the track-only Bolide is so much more than just a re-bodied Chiron.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2023
• To him, every toy truck should come with a tire that slowly deflates to illustrate the concept of running out of time.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
• The story of the hunting dogs on this trip that pursued and fought the bear illustrated the determination and grit of the hunting hound.
  — Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• To fully understand the scope of Blink, The Enquirer worked with organizers to come up with some numbers that illustrate its local impact.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024