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

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 Macfadden, Bernarr

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 Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

Images need not be true; but I am illustrating what vividness of apprehension is, and what is the strength of belief consequent upon it.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

I speak from memory, but the general fact which I am illustrating is undeniable.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry