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
He was illustrating a maxim a half dozen of his colleagues had repeated: Rhys takes his work extremely seriously, but he takes himself much less so.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2020
“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
Thomson, who was illustrating his "Three Sunsets":— Would you kindly do no sketches, or photos, for me, on a Sunday?
From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
