instruct

Example Sentences

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Yet Jones didn’t instruct her to swab the plastic pill bag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Some had to instruct lawyers and debt collectors and pursue taking a civil case against the operator, which runs a home which was at the centre of an undercover BBC investigation last year.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

A more recent approach has been to instruct students as well — so they could better protect themselves and their peers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

A poor start from the German giants was compounded when VAR intervened to instruct that Svensson's misjudged challenge on Odobert be upgraded from a yellow to a red card on 26 minutes.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

“How could I do the thing that I must instruct her to never do, once she knows how to understand? That’s hypocrisy, is what.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill