Example Sentences

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The witnesses were not simply outlining the battle; they were illustrating it.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

It is as if Scorsese were illustrating the mere fact that they rehearsed rather than looking with any curiosity at the processes behind the group’s real-time development of musical ideas.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

Lillard couldn’t have framed it any better if he were illustrating a Game 5 comic book.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2019

Was that conscious for you as you were illustrating?

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2018

He began making quick, nervous little movements with his hands as if he were illustrating a mechanical process in pantomime.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick