illustrate

IPA: ˈɪɫʌstreɪt

(obsolete) To shed light upon.
(figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
(obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.

Examples of "illustrate" in Sentences

The model used to illustrate is the fish market scenario.
The terms illustrate YouTube's willingness to bend in wooing media companies.
The book and its title illustrate both the ridiculous and pleasurable nature of words.
The point I was trying to illustrate is the difference between broadcasting a sporting event and reporting on it.
Here's a chart to illustrate from the Afghan NGO Safety Office, showing the level of insurgent-initiated violence:
I look for synonyms, find none, but along the way I decide that "illustrate" is a better word than "way," and change that.
As the quotes I provided from Dinstein illustrate, or should have illustrated, I also suspect that Israel acted lawfully in this particular case.
There is an old story used to illustrate the meaning of the Yiddish word chutzpah (roughly translated as "nerve" or "gall"): A man kills his parents, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.