How to Use elucidate in a Sentence

elucidate

verb

• When asked for details, he declined to elucidate further.
• Their blooms elucidate the first warm day of the season as not just a feeling, but a fact.
  — Sara Tardiff, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Signals of changes in the climate are harder to elucidate in these blazes.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• Now, a new study of the scroll is elucidating some of the methods that kept it intact for millennia.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
• But a closer reading elucidates what that brand always was.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Dialect is used not to define but to elucidate character.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• The team’s findings add to, rather than elucidate, the mysteries surrounding the canvas.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2019
• Maloney has an uncanny ability to recall and elucidate moments that couldn’t have been very clear at the time.
  — Chris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• Pinterest declined to elucidate whether the difference was due to rounding.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• Climate response time is one of the important 'details' that climate models help to elucidate.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
• Joe elucidated his view that New York was the industry’s one and only mecca.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The potential upsides of pet ownership appear to outweigh the risks — and continue to be elucidated.
  — Richard Schiffman, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• Much of the play is spent elucidating the minds of characters thrashing out the debate over patriotic duty and private conscience.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• If your marketer or team does not focus on the brand promise and elucidate it in the brand experience and messaging, then your branding means nothing to your customers.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Woodpiles are one of the most mundane yet elucidating details O’Connor has studied.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2017
• And get there early to hear Zander’s lucid and elucidating introduction to the program, which will be like getting fit with a fresh pair of ears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Conversations with artists and curators seek to introduce and elucidate the many factors that inform the making of an image.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
• Moreover, the limits of what is desirable to promote abroad are drawn by truth, elucidated by reason and inlayed in tradition.
  — Jakub Grygiel, National Review, 21 Aug. 2019
• Both of these techniques can elucidate the structure of proteins at near-atomic resolution.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Maybe someone would propose a study to elucidate the disconnect between the stereotype of single people as selfish and the reality of their giving ways.
  — Bella Depaulo, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
• Philosophers and writers have spilled countless barrels of ink attempting to elucidate the origins of happiness.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2014
• When humor was needed to elucidate the matter, Irwin unfurled some of his own matchless clowning skills.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Authorities have published intricate flow charts to try to elucidate the various routes to tanchuang.
  — Pei-Lin Wu, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The use of pretentious phrases and complex acronyms is generally designed to obfuscate rather than elucidate.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• Your partner could support you by avoiding behaviors that elucidate your anxiety or trigger you.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Dec. 2022
• Elhaik thinks his group’s research will further elucidate that question and show more precise movements of multiple groups of people.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
• One suspects that the points Sankoff and Hein sought to elucidate precluded any more comprehensive portrayal of the conflicts and tensions that must have arisen.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Being a Cell paper there is a lot of neat molecular technique to elucidate the mechanistic pathways.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2013
• Elhaik thinks his group’s research will further elucidate that question and show more precise movements of multiple groups of people.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
• This might seem strange, given that art history serves to preserve and elucidate art objects, and that neither museum people nor academics are averse to a good public scrap.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024