illustrate
verb (used with object)
to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
illustratively
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a word derived from
illustrate.
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a word derived from
illustrative.
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
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
The terms in which its description has just been illustratively traced show it to be perfectly rational, and even matter-of-fact.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
"No," said the pawnbroker, shutting his lips illustratively.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
