instructively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
There was an instructively comparable non-crisis in Washington shortly after Andrew Jackson became president.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2015
More instructively, he also suggested why studios have become so dependent on blockbusters.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2013
They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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