Wondering how to use Instructive in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as informative or interpretative.
Instructive meaning
Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
Synonyms of Instructive
Using Instructive
- The main meaning on this page is: Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
- Useful related words include: informative, interpretative, expositive, expository.
- In the example corpus, instructive often appears in combinations such as: is instructive, instructive to, be instructive.
Context around Instructive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Instructive
- In this selection, "instructive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, comprehensive, highly, book and championing stand out and add context to how "instructive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a comprehensive instructive book and and also very instructive to state. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "instructive" sits close to words such as abstain, acrylic and adc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with instructive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Brown’s own story is instructive. (6 words)
Sudan should be instructive in this regard. (7 words)
He might find it to be very instructive. (8 words)
What Pence won’t talk about, though, is perhaps more instructive: Championing red flag laws that give law enforcement officials the opportunity to intervene when a person is deemed as high-risk, as well as banning bump stocks. (38 words)
This week will have many companies reporting and not likely to be subject to the same distortion as last week, so it will be instructive to see if the earnings performance resumes its relative improvement. (35 words)
Yet it’s instructive to know that there’s a marriage between sports and education which has now given the iconic Mansa Musa a new life long after his retirement from the active sport. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Brown’s own story is instructive.
But under the covers, the way this arrangement rolled out may be far more instructive than any shift in the balance of power between Moscow and Kyiv.
For some in the opposition, the situation in Belarus is instructive.
He might find it to be very instructive.
I thought the example of the Caribbean colonies was particularly instructive, because there you have a wide variation in the percentage of Europeans in places with very similar geography.
It is also very instructive to state that the Presidency lifted the suspension after he was cleared of any wrong doing by the Panel.
It is instructive to note that over 500 education practitioners in other states and outside Nigeria have also successfully completed the course.
It is instructive to state here that apart from those players who changed their nationalities to Nigeria, the rest cut their teeth playing for Nigeria, beginning from the country’s age-grade teams.
It’s a comprehensive, instructive book and a fun read for the novice angler or the stream-seasoned veteran.
It’s instructive, for one, that he hasn’t shaped the narration chronologically.
Musk’s algorithm is particularly instructive for manufacturing firms, but can also apply to any business.
Sudan should be instructive in this regard.
That my family handed down these particular anecdotes—selected from the slush pile of history— is instructive.
The case of the 2020 race riots in West Coast Berbice in this respect is instructive.
These are among the 24 non-physiological factors the Arther Method treats as instructive during polygraph tests.
The statue represents an era brought to life in historian Tara Zahra’s highly instructive and beautifully written book, Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars.
This week will have many companies reporting and not likely to be subject to the same distortion as last week, so it will be instructive to see if the earnings performance resumes its relative improvement.
Trump’s approach to DeSantis’s war on Disney is instructive.
What Pence won’t talk about, though, is perhaps more instructive: Championing red flag laws that give law enforcement officials the opportunity to intervene when a person is deemed as high-risk, as well as banning bump stocks.
Yet it’s instructive to know that there’s a marriage between sports and education which has now given the iconic Mansa Musa a new life long after his retirement from the active sport.
Common combinations with instructive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is instructive 39×
- instructive to 25×
- be instructive 14×
- instructive in 13×
- instructive and 8×
- an instructive 8×
- more instructive 7×
- very instructive 7×
- instructive for 7×
- and instructive 6×