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illustration

An illustration describes something in the form of pictures; to illustrate.

illustration

artwork that helps make something clear or attractive (= exemplification) showing by example a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand (= example) an item of information that is typical of a class or group this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome there is an example on page 10

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Simple sentences

An illustration may make the point clear.

Movie subtitles

Now Moses is very fine illustration of little-known fact that men of faith and men of science by contradicting each other always manage to arrive at same conclusion.
Senator Cooley has obliged with a perfect illustration.
Forgive my stupid illustration.
Let me give you an illustration.
Then it has this illustration of a couple in sports clothes hugging each other.
You don't want an illustration, leave the premises.
Here is an illustration of the brain of a malingerer to stick in your wee scrap book.
It's not a bad illustration of you, William Blake.
Merely to the illustration of your character.
I wanted to ask you about this menu illustration.
This key section uncovered tonight, and obtained exclusively by CNN shows an illustration of a human figure inside a geometric structure of some kind.
In the funny papers they sometimes have this little competition to find an animal hidden in an illustration.
The mall is a very beautiful illustration of all these economic principles.
Mr Giles, an illustration of Lagos, if you please.
For our information, just for illustration, tell us how you intend to run the nation.
I give you an illustration.
A card with an illustration on it.
It'd be marvelous to use as an illustration in your book.
Where this illustration fits in the novel is not clear.
Can't we insert this illustration?
I wanted to ask you about this menu illustration. I recognise most of the historical portraits you've drawn here, but what's this here?
Well, I think Your Majesty's giving a very good illustration of it.
Take down a problem for the General, an illustration of infallibility.
The grain is just for illustration.
Every illustration was a riddle posed by the past to the present.
Forgive my stupid illustration. -Allow me.
I have an illustration of this floor that was photographed by a magazine specialising in architecture.
But every now and again, when the quarrymen come to split a block, they open it and find that there's an illustration already printed within it, an illustration that's 140 million years old, like this one A fish.

News and current affairs

England once again provides an apt illustration.
It can be a living illustration that religion is no longer afraid of democracy and that democracy is no longer afraid of religion.
Events in the days leading up to America's presidential election provided a stark illustration of the struggle.
One illustration of this attitude is the recent raid on the headquarters of the Media-Most conglomerate whose television and radio stations, as well as newspapers, have been critical of the Chechnya campaign.
One illustration makes the case vividly. Controlling disease requires a health system that can deliver life-saving medications and basic preventive services such as bed-nets to fight malaria and vitamins to fight nutritional deficiencies.
Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, is the perfect antithesis to Berlin, and as such the best illustration of what happens when history does freeze.
The European Union offers a classic illustration of this point.
Consider an (admittedly extreme) illustration.
The late 1990s offer a good illustration of how trade theory works in the real world.
The actual transformation in the coming years will have one major advantage compared to this illustration.
Estrada's conviction gives Filipinos the clearest illustration of what the rule of law may bring to their society.
Generally speaking, China's reform period has been a stark contemporary illustration of the historical lesson that unleashing individual initiative tends to boost economic development.
Kenya isn't an illustration of development failing, but of development at work: complex, powerful, and yet fragile.
China is the best illustration of this phenomenon.
Independent central banks provide an important illustration of this.
A third illustration concerns Moscow's recent defiance of the United Nations war crimes tribunal by hosting a visit of Yugoslav Defence Minister, Dragoljub Ojdanic.
France's policy toward China and the issue of the French and EU president's attendance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics has represented a spectacular illustration of this lack of consistency.
The current oil rush in West Africa is a perfect illustration of the problem.
Such beliefs come naturally to those committed to the view that markets perform better without regulation, and Rajan's statement is a good illustration of the IMF's creed at the time.
One illustration makes the case vividly.

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