ILLUSTRATION in a Sentence

Learn ILLUSTRATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
91 example sentences for ILLUSTRATION, such as:
1. The marginal illustration is very interesting.
2. The illustration had too much redundant detail.
3. The book was illustrated with color photographs.
4. This illustration shows a section through the timber.
5. He illustrated his argument with quotations from Pasternak.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ILLUSTRATION
illustration
 n.  artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
 n.  an item of information that is typical of a class or group
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  A significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
2  Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  As they stood there now by Legree, they seemed an apt illustration of the fact that brutal men are lower even than animals.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
5  "Merely to the illustration of your character," said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  Willoughby thought the same; and their behaviour at all times, was an illustration of their opinions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Today all the significance of his book rose before him with special distinctness, and whole periods ranged themselves in his mind in illustration of his theories.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
8  An illustration of something of this same feeling came under my observation afterward.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
9  Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
10  I see your photograph, and Sir Clifford's, in the illustrated papers sometimes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  She was thrilled by her contact with a man of the upper class, this titled gentleman, this author who could write books and poems, and whose photograph appeared in the illustrated newspapers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  Leslie Winter was attached to Clifford, but personally did not entertain a great respect for him, because of the photographs in illustrated papers and the literature.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  They treasure up every one of your pictures in the illustrated papers, and probably pray for you every night.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  No case, however, in which Holmes was engaged has ever illustrated the value of his analytical methods so clearly or has impressed those who were associated with him so deeply.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  By way of illustration I'll refer to the behavior of rabbits.
2  The illustration had too much redundant detail.
3  The marginal illustration is very interesting.
4  The scientist used vivid examples in illustration of his theory.
5  The scientist cited vivid instances in illustration of his theory.
6  This illustration shows a section through the timber.
7  This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.
8  My favorite illustration is in chapter 13, when Peter eats stew at Leo's house.
9  "Joyful happiness" is an illustration of tautology.
10  Select one of these diaper folding methods for illustration detail.
11  He illustrated his argument with quotations from Pasternak.
12  The book was illustrated with color photographs.
13  His lecture was illustrated with slides taken during the expedition.
14  The lecturer illustrated his point with a diagram on the blackboard.
15  The fecundity of his mind is illustrated by the many vivid images in his poems.