How to Use instructive in a Sentence

instructive

adjective

• All three failed in the same instructive ways.
  — Alex Pavlak, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2026
• The turn for the worse is instructive.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• But this match was even more instructive.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• To the rest of the world, the hypocrisy is glaring and instructive.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• In that sense, the book’s title makes for an instructive play on words.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• The fact that only one player has filed her own case is instructive.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Even at an early stage, the creation of the tree can be instructive.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 7 Aug. 2019
• One of the most instructive moments is how many bad ideas there are that get abandoned.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Watching any zombie movie when things are bad in the world is very instructive.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
• How might that be instructive, to observe the eclipse in this context?
  — Elizabeth Dias, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
• But are there places that have more compelling claims to being instructive?
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
• The most instructive, for me, at least, was about her time working as a makeup artist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• One drama that’s played out in the background of the month’s events should be instructive for them.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
• History of great cities and wars is instructive here.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
• But the fact Bayer was even in the game to begin with is instructive.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The instructive aspect of the day was as helpful as the guiding one.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
• The late-1990s dot-com boom is instructive.
  — Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• No deal is believed to be close, but the mere fact Blubaugh is being bandied about is instructive.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 July 2026
• The difficulties on set can be just as instructive as the times when things are going well.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• But, at the very least, there are chilling and instructive parallels.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• What went wrong is specific and instructive.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• The most instructive recent move was not the purchase of a club, or even a player transfer.
  — Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
• The failures are instructive, too.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
• Just playing against a team with one of the best records in baseball is instructive for a young team that is trying to find its way.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• But one of the day's most instructive cautionary tales took place in the heart of Europe.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• The dearth of inflation in the years that followed may be instructive today.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Though The Hand is by no means his best work, its qualities are instructive.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• More than a decade of guidance by Jarrah has been instructive, Kafeel says.
  — Rifat Malik, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• But the full score is more interesting and instructive than its ending alone.
  — John Avlon, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
• But here is where my memory of that day on 14th Street is instructive.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 17 June 2020