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Example sentences for "illustrate the"

  • To illustrate the risk of sitting on the ground, I may mention the following incident: Many years ago news was brought that a tiger had killed cattle some six or seven miles off.

  • Now, of all the anecdotes and facts which I have collected, or of all which I have ever heard to illustrate the state of Scottish society in the past times, as regards its habits of intemperance, this assuredly surpasses them all.

  • Perhaps the following may seem to illustrate the self-importance of the betheral tribe.

  • The cases to which attention will be directed are not many; but they suffice to illustrate the practice, and to enable the reader to decide whether such experiments should meet approval or condemnation.

  • There is hardly a physiological writer of distinction from whose works he did not quote to illustrate the excesses he condemns.

  • This body is publishing a series of maps and engravings to illustrate the progress of the science of the prehistoric and subsequent periods.

  • The miserable details of daily life here pressed me down, down," and she pressed her own hand upon her forehead to illustrate the idea.

  • Ruptured Mauser Mantle, to illustrate the tendency to complete longitudinal fissuring] Fig.

  • To illustrate the nature of the symptoms in patients suffering from the less extensive forms of injury, such as those included in classes II.

  • To illustrate the application of the rules given, let us apply them to some well-known varieties, taking first the Barred Plymouth Rock.

  • To illustrate the use of the three terms in application to a single breed: A stock of Light Brahmas might be kept pure for half a century, yet at the end of that period might have changed its type entirely.

  • Once more, our Lord uses the time before the Flood, to illustrate the carelessness of men before His own coming.

  • The second sketch, which in the plate is incomplete, is here reproduced and completed from the original to illustrate the text.

  • They were no doubt intended exclusively for his own instruction, and, before all, as it seems, to illustrate the features or consequences resulting from a given principle.

  • These demonstrations are to illustrate the eye.

  • Windsor Castle--may also serve to illustrate the subject of appropriate gestures, treated in Nos.

  • The reason of this is-- [Footnote: The diagram intended to illustrate the statement (Pl.

  • Illustrate the signification of the word by a sentence.

  • Illustrate the meaning of "chronometer" by using it in a sentence.

  • Illustrate the meaning of the word "enormity" by a sentence.

  • Woolner says it is not possible to succeed as an art critic more than I have done; that Tennyson has been very much interested in my articles, and has in consequence urged his publishers to employ Doré to illustrate the "Idylls of the King.

  • It had been decided that the Rhone voyage should be abandoned for one on the Saône; and Mr. Hamerton was in active correspondence with Mr. Seeley about the choice of an artist to illustrate the book.

  • He began at once the pen-drawings which were to illustrate the articles on Autun, and he liked his work exceedingly.

  • The grand scheme for an Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester, in 1857, suggested to Sir James Kay Shuttleworth the idea of having an Exhibition at Burnley in the same year to illustrate the history of Lancashire.

  • Enough, however, is expressed to illustrate the points in question.

  • He damns all the rest purely to illustrate the glory of some monstrous thing called his justice.

  • He saves a few people to illustrate the glory of his grace and mercy.

  • I wish now, for a moment, to illustrate the working of this in regard to some of the institutions of the world.

  • Ewald incidentally throws out a suggestion [204:2] that it was originally written on the margin of some ancient manuscript, to illustrate the words of Christ in John viii.

  • Certainly not of the oral traditions, for the interpretations are presupposed, and the oral traditions are mentioned subsequently, being introduced to illustrate the interpretations.

  • To illustrate the relation of these denunciations to Marcionite doctrine, I will suppose a parallel.

  • The sidepieces, which are marked with letters to indicate their sequence, illustrate the Creation, the prophecies of the Sibyls, and the subjects of the Biblia Pauperum.

  • In his preface he states that Reuwich was expressly taken on the expedition to illustrate the narrative, and he certainly had ample skill to justify the engagement.

  • You must give me the whole ballad," said Miss Ashburton; "it will serve to illustrate the sketch.

  • As Apuleius says, pardon must be granted to novelty of words, when it serves to illustrate the obscurity of things.

  • But as I said before, pardon must be granted to the novelty of words, when it serves to illustrate the obscurity of things.

  • From Macaulay's long comparison of the writings of Milton and Dante, one paragraph is enough to illustrate the use of contrast.

  • A text-book on Logic, such as Jevons's, should be used to illustrate the kinds of argument more fully.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both cheeks; cannot sleep; diagonal direction; execute judgment; golf clubs; great medicine; had anticipated; her brain; illustrate the; illustrated edition; iron filings; little above; much wealth; one knows; relation between; slavery agitation; social status; special cases; technically known; tons were; wild boar; will away; you take