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On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Illustrative. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as informative or exemplifying and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.

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Illustrative meaning

Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.

Synonyms of Illustrative

informative exemplifying informatory demonstrative instructive

Related words

Other words often associated with Illustrative or its synonyms:

educational didactical elucidative educative didactic clarifying explanatory doctrinaire gushy consultative uninformative effusive

Using Illustrative

  • The main meaning on this page is: Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
  • Useful related words include: informative, exemplifying, informatory, demonstrative.
  • In the example corpus, illustrative often appears in combinations such as: illustrative of, for illustrative, illustrative purposes.

Context around Illustrative

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

perhaps 1×

Often after:

purposes 3× image 2× cross 1× flares 1× hezbollah 1× police 1× case 1× analogy 1×

Sentence patterns with Illustrative

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

an illustrative image of 2× are for illustrative purposes only 2× an illustrative cross section 1× and more illustrative 1× are very illustrative of vancouver 1× as an illustrative case study 1× bother with illustrative analogy 1× examples are illustrative because the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

an illustrative image 2× all images are 1× an illustrative cross 1× central to to 1× eby though said 1× for illustrative purposes 1×

Common sentence endings:

a road crash 1× and more illustrative 1× december 24 2022 1× december 9 2021 1× illustrative case study 1× illustrative of this 1×

Words around Illustrative

Just before it in the word index:

illustrations 463 illustration 729 illustrating 213 illustrates 420 illustrated 908 illustrate 512

Just after it in the word index:

illustrator 183 illustrators 53 illustres 2 illustribus 2 illustrious 269 illustrisimo 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

acp 136 administers 136 amg 136 ansari 136 anthropologists 136 archived 136

Corpus analysis for Illustrative

  • In this selection, "illustrative" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, perhaps, purposes, image and cross stand out and add context to how "illustrative" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include an illustrative image of and are for illustrative purposes only. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "illustrative" sits close to words such as acp, administers and amg, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with illustrative

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Communications cables (photo is illustrative). (5 words)

Why bother with illustrative analogy? (5 words)

All images are for illustrative purposes only. (7 words)

Longer example sentences

For illustrative purposes, the Biden Administration is playing a game of “Jenga” with the US economy: How many more blocks can they remove from under the feet of working, tax paying, Americans while simultaneously stacking those blocks on their backs? (40 words)

Central to to that was the display of Ruairi O'Mianain whose 1-03 from play was illustrative of a superb individual performance in a half in which Derry were at times guilty of taking a pass too many. (39 words)

Illustrative: Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral procession on May 15, 2021, of their comrade Mohammed Tahhan who was shot dead by Israeli forces along the Lebanon-Israel border, in the southern village of Adloun, Lebanon. (35 words)

Question examples

For illustrative purposes, the Biden Administration is playing a game of “Jenga” with the US economy: How many more blocks can they remove from under the feet of working, tax paying, Americans while simultaneously stacking those blocks on their backs? (40 words)

Why bother with illustrative analogy? (5 words)

Example sentences (20)

All images are for illustrative purposes only.

An illustrative cross-section of Alteryx's customer base: Netflix (), Abbott Laboratories (), Marriott Hotels () are all among Alteryx's anchor clients, spanning every industry.

An illustrative image of Slovak police officers carrying out a check on the Bratislava - Kittsee border crossing.

Communications cables (photo is illustrative).

For illustrative purposes, the Biden Administration is playing a game of “Jenga” with the US economy: How many more blocks can they remove from under the feet of working, tax paying, Americans while simultaneously stacking those blocks on their backs?

Illustrative: A screenshot of video from the northern West Bank village of Burqa shows a fire, amid clashes between Palestinians and settlers, May 24, 2023.

Illustrative: Flares are fired from northern Israel over the southern Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, on October 28, 2023.

Illustrative: Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral procession on May 15, 2021, of their comrade Mohammed Tahhan who was shot dead by Israeli forces along the Lebanon-Israel border, in the southern village of Adloun, Lebanon.

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Illustrative: Police at the scene of an apparent criminal shooting, December 24, 2022.

Illustrative: US President Joe Biden takes a phone call in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on December 9, 2021.

In recent years, she’s moved on from photographing family and friends, and her work, in editorial spreads and elsewhere, has grown less personal and more illustrative.

The change in approach Tuesday is perhaps illustrative of the mounting urgency within his campaign to make headway in the state.

The ineffectiveness of the military juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso are illustrative of this.

The sectors/securities shown above are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be considered a recommendation to buy/sell.

When it comes to developing homegrown content, the Newen exec subscribed to a Think Local, Act Global ethos, pointing toward the Newen distributed “High Intellectual Potential” (pictured above) as an illustrative case study.

Whether or not they receive further recognition, the 10 are very illustrative of Vancouver’s dining scene.

Why bother with illustrative analogy?

An illustrative image of a road crash.

Central to to that was the display of Ruairi O'Mianain whose 1-03 from play was illustrative of a superb individual performance in a half in which Derry were at times guilty of taking a pass too many.

Eby, though, said the tobacco and opioid examples are illustrative because the courtroom wrangling and bad publicity also helped drive the companies out of business.

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Common combinations with illustrative

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "illustrative" in a sentence?
An example: "All images are for illustrative purposes only." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "illustrative" from authentic English texts.
What does "illustrative" mean?
Illustrative means: Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
What are synonyms of "illustrative"?
Common synonyms of "illustrative" include: informative, exemplifying, informatory, demonstrative, instructive.
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