illustrative
IPA: ɪɫˈʌstrʌtɪv
adjective
- Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
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Examples of "illustrative" in Sentences
- The example is illustrative and apt.
- Again, he lists these as all, what he calls illustrative options and doesn't endorse any of them.
- Caesar are largely made up of what one might term illustrative fictions rather than actual facts.
- "It would seem the Lib Dems 'support for law and order is purely' illustrative '- just as it was when they used a fake nurse to promote their claims of support for the NHS."
- At all events, it does his fame no great harm, unlike another calumny, which, as it does not seem "illustrative" -- that is, not in keeping with his general character -- we are at liberty to reject.
- MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq.
- The next stop was Lake City, -- a name illustrative of Californian megalomania; for the lake, long since gone dry, was merely an artificial reservoir to supply a neighboring mine, and the city was a collection of half a dozen buildings including a store and a hotel.
- The works mentioned contain illustrative examples of many forms of sabotage; slowing up work, while keeping on the job; putting preparations in steam boilers to prevent their efficient operation; sand and emery dust in machinery to make it slow down or cease running.
- MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about, but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas, which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq, the kind of tough-love approach advocated by some of Rumsfeld's political adversaries.
- MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about, but stopped short of recommending, some radical ideas, which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq, the kind of tough-love approach advocated by some of Rumsfeld's political adversaries.