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

If his drone is shot down, he can easily turn to his fellow pilot and instruct them on where the shooter is, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The City Council voted 12-3 in December to instruct Feldstein Soto to “immediately” implement AB 630.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 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

Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos