illustrate
verb (used with object)
to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
was illustrating
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past progressiveof illustrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He said his remarks in the clip were taken out of context, and that he was illustrating that to compete with MORENA, one had to use propaganda as the party did.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2022
“In the position we were in, it was illustrating that there doesn’t have to be a conflict.”
From Fox News ● Oct. 30, 2019
Ms. Severin began her career in 1949, when her brother, John Severin, asked her to help with comic books he was illustrating for EC Comics.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
In the advanced area, the instructor Simeon Etta was illustrating the finer points of the crazy legs to his students.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2018
Besides illustrating various social subjects and caricaturing the Academy and the new plays, I was illustrating the "Essence of Parliament."
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss
