illustrate
verb (used with object)
to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
have been illustrating
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present perfect progressiveof illustrate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Compare with it the attempts of our painters a century ago to achieve the effects of the old masters by imitation when they should have been illustrating a faith of their own.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
What I have been illustrating in the case of persons, might be instanced in regard to places, transactions, physical calamities, events in history.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
"On the contrary, father, I think it is a verification of what I have been illustrating."
From The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter
The principle which we have been illustrating applies only to one half—and that the less important half—of our prayers and of Christ's answers.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
