illustrate
verb (used with object)
to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
am illustrating
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present progressiveof illustrate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am illustrating ideas, or concepts, or patterns that surround ideas about black identity.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2012
Actual games of the kind I am illustrating here have been played by us, many and many a time, with joy and happy invention and no thought of publication.
From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I am illustrating that old jingle about the Queen of Hearts who made some tarts upon a summer day.
From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
The reader will observe, too, that the method by which this explanation is made is strictly in accordance with the principle I am illustrating, which is by simply dividing the process into short steps.
From The Teacher by Jacob Abbott
In this chapter I am illustrating a series of movements that have a similar object in view, but which will be found far easier to perform.
From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden
