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Example sentences for "illustrates"

Lexicographically close words:
illusions; illusive; illusory; illustrate; illustrated; illustrating; illustration; illustrations; illustrative; illustrator
  1. Your Commission Exhibit 753 illustrates that shadowgraph, or actually shows that shadowgraph, Mr. Shaneyfelt?

  2. The very final one illustrates just a little sample of the kind of cases we received in Texas which we did not think warranted investigation.

  3. The following narrative of an outbreak of purulent ophthalmia that occurred on board a vessel freighted with slaves for the West Indies forcibly illustrates the character and infectious nature of this disease.

  4. The most favored subject-matter illustrates a pronounced trait in Arabic character, for amorous themes of an immoral order accorded best with Arabic taste.

  5. Looked at from a certain point of view, Xavier de Maistre illustrates the effect of the Sensibility theory on a thoroughly good-natured, cultivated, and well-bred man of no particular force or character or strength of emotion.

  6. But this last ill-mannered particularity illustrates the character, and in its way the value, of the whole book.

  7. And the double situation illustrates once more the extraordinary care taken in systematising--and as one might almost say syllabising--the book.

  8. All this illustrates what may be called the attempt to get rid of Sensibility by the humorist gate of escape.

  9. No writer perhaps illustrates what is being said better than Prévost.

  10. It illustrates very well the practical nature of the teaching of Salerno, and gives a rather vivid picture of the medical customs of the time.

  11. That the latter stipulation was agreed to and honestly enforced illustrates the genuine hold Johnson had upon his brown brethren of the Long House.

  12. The following passage illustrates the general character of a funerary hymn to Rā: "Homage to thee, O thou who art in the form of Khepera, Khepera the creator of the gods.

  13. Another remarkable composition in the Book of the Dead is the first part of Chapter CXXV, which well illustrates the lofty moral conceptions of the Egyptians of the eighteenth dynasty.

  14. Which is true enough, though it only illustrates the line of the Roman poet that religion always has its root in fear.

  15. The exposure of it follows him wherever he goes, and illustrates the truth of at least one Bible text--"Be sure your sin will find you out.

  16. Its text is the inevitableness of destiny; and the way in which the story illustrates this is as original as it is clever.

  17. The story of Achilles and the tortoise illustrates this.

  18. This region of large and strongly defined topographic features illustrates in a remarkable manner the nature of the work performed by streams which rise amid high mountains and flow across a dry plateau standing well above sea-level.

  19. This distribution illustrates in a striking manner the dependence of trees on humidity.

  20. The Gulf border of Mexico and Texas, composed of soft marine sediments, forms a gently sloping plain bordered on the west by a roughened upland, and illustrates the general feature of a recently emerged coastal plain (Fig.

  21. There is a passage in Mandeville which well illustrates Chaucer; I quote the part of it which more immediately relates to the Climates.

  22. It illustrates the tricks of millers, but the story is different.

  23. He elaborately and clearly demonstrates the effect of obstruction of the blood-stream in arteries or in veins, by the forceps in the case of a snake, by a ligature on the arm of a man, and illustrates his argument by figures.

  24. The small figure illustrates a spring connexion between the adjusting lever and its locking bar, which allows the teeth to yield upon striking an obstruction.

  25. My copy of the Tractatus illustrates a method of satisfying the conscience in possessing prohibited books, at least in Italy.

  26. In this popular exposition of Christian rancor, no story is too wild and unnatural to be unworthy of credence, if it illustrates the innate and ineradicable depravity of the Jew, and his quenchless desire to work evil to the Christian.

  27. This case illustrates why, during the decadence of the Inquisition, we hear little or nothing of Protestantism among Spaniards, although the spirit of persecution was unabated.

  28. Correspondence of the New York Times from Atlanta well illustrates this.

  29. The case of Mr. Winn's scheme for Sumter illustrates the personal appeal to local pride.

  30. This Patrick Calhoun illustrates well the North-of-Ireland character; one peculiarity of which is the possession of will disproportioned to intellect.

  31. His management of the bank perfectly illustrates his singular and apparently contradictory character.

  32. This incident perfectly illustrates what we mean by the seeming incongruity between the ancient cast of doctrine and the modernized people to whom it is preached.

  33. A little incident which occurred during the first year of his presidency illustrates this trait in his character very well.

  34. I have followed out this comparison because it illustrates perfectly the entirely superficial character of the reasons which have led men to speak of Washington as an English country gentleman.

  35. That such a knowledge is still required, though the need is becoming less urgent, is shown by an incident which illustrates the pathos of the Irish exodus.

  36. That history, however, illustrates so vividly the English misunderstanding, that a short survey of one phase of it may help to point the moral.

  37. Even to those who are familiar with our history, the faith of the Irish people in the potentialities of government, which this little tale illustrates by caricature, will give cause for reflection of another and more serious kind.

  38. He illustrates this by telling how, while spending the night in a small cow ranch on the Beaver, he lay in his bunk listening to the conversation of two cowboys.

  39. Nothing illustrates this rule better than an episode which the Colonel himself made public.

  40. The following incident illustrates the fine diplomacy with which he won back the regard of the Southern people: On one of his Southern trips his train stopped at Charlotte.

  41. Thus was this noble act achieved, of which history furnishes but few parallels; and which strikingly illustrates the coolness, determination and bravery, which ever characterized the noble-hearted Jasper.

  42. The following incident, admirably illustrates the presence of mind, and the many resources of this courageous lady.

  43. The first may have been true, the second, we believe, simply illustrates his inveterate habit of telling tales against himself with the desire to shock.

  44. But on the whole the author breathes the noblest and purest sentiments, and illustrates his meanings by the most pleasing, respectable, and apposite tales, along with numerous extracts from the Koran.

  45. The composition, though faulty in many respects, illustrates the point we had in view.

  46. The following incident, which I witnessed on a late journey, illustrates an important principle, and I will relate it.

  47. A curious little book, The Rosicrucians, by Hargrave Jennings, contains an interesting diagram which well illustrates this conception of the symbolism of a cathedral.

  48. It illustrates the law of Unity in that it movingly portrays a single significant episode in the life of Christ.

  49. Everything, beautiful or ugly, obeys and illustrates one or another of these laws, so universal are they, so inseparably attendant upon every kind of manifestation in time and space.

  50. Thus it is that the history of architecture illustrates and enforces the theosophical teaching that everything of man's creating is made in his own image.

  51. It is significant that these words preceded by only a few months the publication of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street," which illustrates in a big and popular way the point in question.

  52. Fildes illustrates Willows with two, and Marcus Stone is represented by half-a-dozen idyllic and charming, if somewhat slight, designs for Young Brown.

  53. Hopkins illustrates Mr. Henley's wonderful achievement, Hospital Outlines, as the poems were called when they appeared in July 1875.

  54. Phiz' re-illustrates The Pickwick Papers with fifty-seven designs, concerning which silence is best.

  55. Pinwell illustrates Edward Garrett's The Crust and the Cake with thirty-four cuts.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illustrates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.