Examples of illustrative in a Sentence

an illustrative analogy in which the relationship between God and humanity is likened to that between a shepherd and his flock

Recent Examples on the Web While many of the posts Advance Democracy identified appeared to have little engagement, all the posts are illustrative of a trend of frequent invocation of violence in these online communities. — Donie O'sullivan And Whitney Wild, CNN, 22 June 2022 Dan is illustrative of the new type of CFO who can see around the corners and can understand the business at a broader level. — Jack Mccullough, Forbes, 21 June 2022 Ophuls cuts the material into interview bites and assembles them to develop the story’s arc; the interviews are punctuated with illustrative archival footage. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 The last one, perhaps, is not only the most convincing but the most illustrative. — New York Times, 8 July 2022 The moment was a mild inconvenience but nonetheless illustrative of the absurdity of the night. — Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 In some cases, your logo will have a clear illustrative element that just makes perfect sense. — Jason O'connor, Forbes, 3 May 2022 The video has scattered NSFW language, lots of typical Oliver asides, and a brutally illustrative Tim Meadows cameo at the end. — Peter Weber, The Week, 18 Apr. 2022 Also, a lot of the time, the most important or illustrative moment can be found by focusing on the reaction to hearing words as opposed to the person saying them. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2021 See More

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