How to Use illustrate in a Sentence

illustrate

verb

• The students will write and illustrate their own stories.
• Please give a few examples to illustrate your point.
• The results illustrate how important it is to wear your seatbelt.
• He illustrated his lecture with stories of his own experiences in the field.
• The last few years illustrate this year-to-year ebb and flow.
  — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
• Chase walks us through it, with clips and outtakes and footage to illustrate his points.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2024
• Hollywood spent a huge part of last year on strike to illustrate this very point.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
• Spitz spoke at one point holding a skull to illustrate the bullet's path.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2022
• The trend is destructive, as a pair of events this week illustrate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
• Twelve years later, this case illustrates why.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
• The Texas case clearly illustrates what is at stake.
  — Lila Rose, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• Yet a look at the films the Oscars present us with illustrates that hope is not lost.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
• Write and illustrate a comic book.
  — Parents, 11 June 2026
• That shift illustrates a deeper trend.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Most of them are illustrated, too, which helps with recall.
  — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
• The final two snaps in the post illustrated just how in love the couple is.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
• But the debacle illustrates what artists are up against.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
• No stat better illustrates the sorry state of the program at that time.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• Even a cursory look illustrates how much the world has changed in recent decades.
  — Collin J. Meisel, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
• She's also used it as a candidate to illustrate just how far she's come.
  — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 12 June 2026
• See five charts that illustrate the current state of the housing market.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• And so to see that dramatic turn, to me, illustrated two things.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• But the past 11 games have illustrated how the Padres are at their best.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
• Some of these crafts, like a book kids can write and illustrate themselves, may even become keepsakes.
  — Leigh Crandall, Country Living, 10 May 2022
• Phone calls, text messages, emails and a photograph that illustrate the case against him.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• To illustrate the power of prompts, Miller turned to gift-giving.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 10 May 2023
• Hall’s case, Rocap said, illustrates that point.
  — Emily Brindley health Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
• And, because the servant could not read, the artist illustrated the lists.
  — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Plus, my brother, who's an artist, illustrated it.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2025
• Alex Spors said his sister's case illustrates the system is flawed.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025