How to Use instructive in a Sentence

instructive

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• To the rest of the world, the hypocrisy is glaring and instructive.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Here, key lessons of the war in Ukraine are instructive.
  — Larry Diamond, Jim Ellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
• Here again the contrast with the Qur’an is instructive.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• In that sense, the book’s title makes for an instructive play on words.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• The echoes from the earliest days of the Tea Party are instructive.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• One drama that’s played out in the background of the month’s events should be instructive for them.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
• The instructive aspect of the day was as helpful as the guiding one.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
• Even at an early stage, the creation of the tree can be instructive.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 7 Aug. 2019
• There are instructive and hopeful lessons from the past.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
• And the seniors profiled in the story were full of good cheer: this was instructive.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• But what Vegas thinks about the Beavers is instructive.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• The most instructive, for me, at least, was about her time working as a makeup artist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• But one of the day's most instructive cautionary tales took place in the heart of Europe.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• The case of Mitch Daniels is an instructive example of this.
  — Kyle Griesinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• One of the most instructive moments is how many bad ideas there are that get abandoned.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Sean McVay is instructive to how the Spanoses go about filling such a big job.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• The fact that only one player has filed her own case is instructive.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Though The Hand is by no means his best work, its qualities are instructive.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Just playing against a team with one of the best records in baseball is instructive for a young team that is trying to find its way.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• No one wears a turtleneck sweater quite like Maxwell and the way his fit–close to his frame, but not at all clingy—are instructive for any man.
  — Caroline Reilly, Town & Country, 18 May 2021
• More than a decade of guidance by Jarrah has been instructive, Kafeel says.
  — Rifat Malik, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• But here is where my memory of that day on 14th Street is instructive.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• In this light, comparing China’s response to the war in Gaza with its response to the war in Ukraine is instructive.
  — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
• The good news: There is no answer Munger’s legacy is instructive.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• But are there places that have more compelling claims to being instructive?
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
• The difficulties on set can be just as instructive as the times when things are going well.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The dearth of inflation in the years that followed may be instructive today.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• As for what Putin does now, the 2004 terrorist attack in Beslan may be instructive.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
• Martinez says the form has more instructive language that helps students avoid mistakes.
  — Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
• This may not be an exact parallel, but the theory versus reality of the controversial Senate Bill 9 might be instructive here.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025