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Example sentences for "explanatory"

Lexicographically close words:
explained; explaining; explains; explanation; explanations; expletive; expletives; explicable; explicat; explicate
  1. The addition of "as an opposite" denotes that the test-person has the desire to add something explanatory or supplementary.

  2. After the prejudice concerning the explanatory basis had been removed by the acceptance of a purely abstract view of it, the nature of which was not anticipated, interest was directed to the concept of the unconscious.

  3. An explanatory light is thrown upon what has happened by this observation.

  4. I am sorry to see that Marracci's numbers have been adopted in a late edition of Sale's translation, and that the distinction between the words of the text and the explanatory interpolations has there been neglected.

  5. The Prophet's assertions on the subject of God's decrees are considered of the highest importance as explanatory of the [K.

  6. With many additional Illustrations, Tables, an Appendix, and an Explanatory Index.

  7. COMTE (Auguste), A Discourse on the Positive Spirit, Explanatory Notes by E.

  8. The third group consists of Explanatory Notes required by the obscurity of the original.

  9. Certain explanatory details, together with a few words of caution, are as much as may be attempted.

  10. Shall we be thought hard to please if we avow that we rather desiderate "Explanatory Notes" on matters which really do call for explanation?

  11. We have at this moment evidence lying on our table sufficiently explanatory and decisive to our minds that such a spirit of combination is abroad against British commercial interests.

  12. The answer given by the Commissioners to Question 3, so far as it goes, is explanatory of the previous answer.

  13. This text-book should be paralleled in the case of experimental science by a hand-book of illustrative and explanatory laboratory work.

  14. These plates were accompanied by explanatory text, and issued in a leatherette case, price 10s.

  15. Before he slept that night he registered a vow—thus he phrased it in his explanatory letter—to write and publish one thousand notices of the book that had saved his life.

  16. The third draft corrects this mistake, and tries by different explanatory interpolations to confirm the relationship of Galahad to the Lame King, and the identity of his castle with the Grail Castle.

  17. The two parts of the legend may really form one organic whole, although more frequently found asunder than combined, or the one part may be an explanatory and supplementary after-thought.

  18. In the form of Questions and Answers, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes.

  19. The Poetical Works of John Milton, With Notes, Explanatory and Philological.

  20. Forbes’s Bagh o Bahar in English, with Explanatory Notes, illustrative of Eastern Character.

  21. The Poetical Works of John Milton=, with Notes, explanatory and philological.

  22. The Bagh-o-Bahar—literally translated into English, with copious explanatory notes.

  23. Nothing less explanatory than this was ever offered in the way of explanation.

  24. Occasionally, the views presented have seemed to be such as required some explanatory note or correction, and in a few instances this has been appended, but the necessity has rarely occurred, and Luther is left throughout to speak for himself.

  25. These will readily be distinguished from the passages or words included in parentheses of the original text, by their explanatory character.

  26. The explanatory note only deals with portions not explained in those to Fig.

  27. The words in parentheses appearing in the explanatory notes to the figure are the Mafulu names for the various parts of the building.

  28. The non-explanatory myths suffer a partial transformation: Literature is a fallen and rationalized mythology.

  29. In addition to the explanatory myths, there are those having no claim to be in this class, although they have perhaps been originally suggested by some phenomenon of animate or inanimate nature.

  30. As this last explanatory expression is wonderfully abused, and is called upon to serve in all conditions, preciseness is indispensable.

  31. On each of these themes he builds thousands of explanatory stories, which vary from the grandly imposing to the laughably childish.

  32. The explanatory myths undergo a radical transformation: the work of depersonification of the myth.

  33. Shortly afterwards, a portaria, dated on the same day, was sent to me, explanatory of the commission which had given rise to so much trouble, and detailing my future pay as agreed upon.

  34. Many of the observations in this note have already appeared in an explanatory article which at Mr. Murray's request, the author furnished to the London Quarterly Review.

  35. A word or two explanatory may therefore be of service.

  36. You perceive," continued spectacles, in an explanatory way, "that he has slippers on his feet.

  37. Robert grumbled over his plates, and Mrs. Campbell was equally cross, and still more explanatory of her temper.

  38. It was impossible for Isabel to hide her delight, and so when this trip had been thoroughly talked over, he came one wet afternoon with the books and maps explanatory of his last journey, which had been altogether on the American continent.

  39. Footnote 13: This again gave rise to some explanatory pamphlets from Hiller: Fragment aus Handel's Messias; Ueber Alt und Neu in der Musik; Der Messias von Handel nebst angehaengten Betrachtungen daruber.

  40. It has seemed to me that these addresses might now be worthy of collection in a volume, as they shed explanatory light upon each other, and taken together express a tolerably definite philosophic attitude in a very untechnical way.

  41. It appears here as a natural supplement to the foregoing article, on which it casts some explanatory light.

  42. What the source of this knowledge may be I know not, and have not the glimmer of an explanatory suggestion to make; but from admitting the fact of such knowledge I can see no escape.

  43. Though the theory of explanatory interpolations of marginal glosses into the text of the N.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "explanatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    critical; demonstrative; editorial; enlightening; explanatory; illuminating; illustrative; informative; rationalistic