illustrate
verb (used with object)
to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
had illustrated
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past perfectof illustrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Milley said that despite gains on each side, Ukraine had illustrated not just better battlefield tactics but a “superior will to fight.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
Speaking after her first practice session in New York, Raducanu explained to BBC Sport how the experience had illustrated the physical improvements she had to make.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2021
Jonathan M. Katz, an author and former Associated Press correspondent who covered the 2010 quake, wrote in a book that the response had illustrated Haiti’s entrenched cycle of dependence.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Upon his knee is a genuine 1967 artifact, a Gibson that Eric Clapton had illustrated by the Fool for his first Cream tour.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2013
From the beginning of the war he had illustrated the highest accomplishments of political oratory in bewailing, like the fabled prophetess of old, the coming woes—which never came.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
