instructively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The machines failed in opposite directions, often instructively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In Pride and Pleasure, Vaill uses two voices, applying tone aesthetically and instructively, almost as Miranda does.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
It’s ersatz, to be sure, but no more ersatz, say, than the world of Cusk’s novels, where everyone the narrator meets happens to be instructively and tirelessly voluble.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
But the Chiuri take on Paris, as expressed in an eclectic line-up of slogan T-shirts, houndstooth capes, embroidered denim and tiered lace, is an instructively unconventional one.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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