Example Sentences

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The job of an art director is to figure out how to visually present a story — photographically, illustratively, conceptually — to communicate complex information simply and, hopefully, to generate an emotional response.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2019

That game will be a tough ask for a squad in which, illustratively, the two hookers are Thiel and Zach Fenoglio, a chemistry teacher from Colorado.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2015

The last named is� to use its own theory illustratively �deluciatingly quippant.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Telling this story, Illingworth last week bounded about his quarters illustratively tying a handkerchief here, sticking a piece of paper there, until the bright, paneled room seemed aflutter with Irish pennants.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was one of Henry's deep-sunken maxims that "a distinguished product implied a distinguished process," and that, at all events, the genealogical process was only illustratively important.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard