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Example sentences for "good illustration"

  • And the ocean gives us a good illustration of the lesson of liberality which our Saviour taught.

  • This region, therefore, furnishes a good illustration of the intermittent and cyclic character of ore concentration which is now coming to be recognized in many ore deposits.

  • This is a good illustration of the cyclic nature of secondary concentration which is coming to be recognized in so many camps.

  • The coöperative effort of the Illinois State Survey and private interests, cited on page 306, is a good illustration of this procedure.

  • A good illustration of current coöperative effort of this kind is in the deep exploration for oil in the Trenton limestone of Illinois.

  • There is a good illustration in the Botanical Magazine, pl.

  • The cultivation of this leguminous plant, akin to the sainfoin, and of which a good illustration may be found in the Flora des Serres et des Jardins, vol.

  • It was new to European gardens at the beginning of the present century, when Andrews published a good illustration of it in the Botanist's Repository (pl.

  • Wight, who gives a good illustration of the plant, does not mention its native place.

  • The one that follows is a good illustration of a type of such tales pleasing to modern minds.

  • The Raggedy Man" is a good illustration of this skill.

  • It gives a good illustration of the necessity of "teamwork.

  • The way in which the house was prepared against the enchantments of the returning witches furnishes a good illustration of some of the deep-seated superstitions of the folk.

  • A good illustration of such employments is found in common school teaching.

  • A good illustration of development of a special traffic is found in the milk trains running two hundred or three hundred miles to supply the city of New York.

  • The combination of flour, water, salt and yeast, by heat, first mild and then intense, into a loaf of bread is a good illustration of a change of qualities by rearrangement of the elements of a substance.

  • A good illustration of division of labor may be found in the process of butchering hogs in a large packing house.

  • Galton found a good illustration in the papacy, where during many centuries it was the custom for a pope to adopt one of his nephews as a son, and push him forward in every way.

  • The sweet pea offers a good illustration of the widespread effects which may result from the change of a single factor.

  • If this is confirmed, it offers a good illustration of the action of sexual selection in furthering the progressive evolution of the race.

  • The trait is a good illustration of the almost incredible minuteness with which heredity enters into a man's make-up.

  • The following extract from a provincial paper, which has been sent me, will furnish a good illustration.

  • There was occasionally a pawky semi-sarcastic humour in the replies of some of the ladies we speak of, that was quite irresistible, of which I have from a friend a good illustration in an anecdote well known at the time.

  • The pathetic complaint of one of this class, residing at a farm-house, has often been narrated, and forms a good illustration of idiot life and feelings.

  • A little anecdote from recollections in my own family will furnish a good illustration of a state of feeling on this point now happily unknown.

  • Hence harness leather manufacture affords a good illustration of the transition between the methods of the late nineteenth and those of the twentieth century.

  • The manufacture of butts for picking bands affords a good illustration.

  • A good illustration of this "speeding up" in modern tanneries is the adoption by all large factories of much more rapid methods of extracting tannin.

  • The family of seals offers a good illustration of the small importance of adaptive characters for classification.

  • Morgan's work on 'The American Beaver,' 1868, offers a good illustration of this remark.

  • You may thus form some slight idea of the distance that we are from the sun; and this, I think, furnishes us with a good illustration of faith.

  • I thought at the time that was a good illustration.

  • That foolish notion is a good illustration, I think.

  • A good illustration is that of the collection of a cheque deposited with a bank.

  • A deed for a piece of land is a good illustration of a sealed instrument.

  • We have a good illustration of the fact that there may be parallel streams of philosophic thought (section 87) when we turn to the Stoics and the Epicureans.

  • Professor Royce is a good illustration of the idealistic monist; see the volume referred to in the note above (section 53).

  • As a good illustration of objective idealism in one of its forms I may take the doctrine of Professor Royce; see his address, "The Conception of God" (N.

  • A good illustration of the value of scientific proof was seen, in 1884, at the trial of a woman named Gibbons on the charge of having shot her husband.

  • The trial popularly known as "The Great Matlock Will Case" is a good illustration of the way in which the internal evidence of documents may afford definite proof of their authorship.

  • The story of Margaret Catchpole, which has now become almost classic, may be cited as a good illustration of the way in which the pursuers were handicapped, when the fugitive had had a few hours' start.

  • Obsidian is a good illustration of a non-essential color, for its capacity and jet-black color are due entirely to impurities.

  • The quartz layers are short and overlapping, and we have here a good illustration of the schistose texture; this is, in fact, a typical schist.

  • This is a good illustration of the seignorial or feudal control of cities, against which the citizens continually struggled.

  • There is here a good illustration of the policy which Frederick I followed of weakening the great duchies by dividing them.

  • This is a good illustration of the confusion of the feudal relation in practice.

  • A good illustration of this device occurs in the New Testament.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good illustration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good advantage; good and faithful servant; good bargain; good circumstances; good crops; good eating; good food; good friends; good influence; good judgment; good land; good library; good lump; good master; good mornin; good nature; good plan; good port; good record; good soldier; good soldiers; good sooth; good wood; good writing; good yeoman; pray take