illustrate with
Example Sentences
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To illustrate with a personal experience, my siblings and I are still seen in a bad light in our home village because we buried our mother three weeks after her death.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2022
Taken together, his examples illustrate with persuasive power how “simplicity continues to present us with the most profound, enigmatic and sometimes unsettling insights” into how the universe works.
From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2021
The helmeted hornbill is wonderful to illustrate, with its enormous size, outrageous beak and textured neck.
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2019
Let me illustrate with a less extreme example.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2016
To illustrate with an example: The Chinese chestnut tree has a shorter rest period or less chilling requirement than does the average Persian walnut tree.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
