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How to use the word illustration in a Sentence?

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The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect...”

Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

People have called me names because I'm not the illustration of what they want to see in a candidate.

Ebo Entsuah

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a great illustration of how Asian Americans are not immune from racial bias and discrimination in our criminal justice system.

John Yang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's an indication and an illustration of just how challenging and diverse this particular threat is.

Christopher Wray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The auto industry is a perfect illustration of the K-shaped recovery.

Michelle Krebs

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's worth underscoring how absurd it is that the descendants of the tribe that met Pilgrims, who every American learns about around this time of year, couldn't meet the definition of a' tribe,' it's just a perfect illustration of how messed up, and really, anti-Native, federal Indian policy has been throughout our history.

Robert Maxim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The circumstances at Farmville right now are a perfect illustration of the ways in which the ongoing transfers that ICE has insisted on continuing are contributing to the spread of coronavirus.

Sirine Shebaya

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We filed litigation for a group of nine people who are medically vulnerable that we were trying to get out of detention and unfortunately, at the time, the judge didn't see things our way and didn't grant the release, the circumstances at Farmville right now are a perfect illustration of the ways in which the ongoing transfers that ICE has insisted on continuing are contributing to the spread of coronavirus.

Sirine Shebaya

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'll take about three to four months writing (a) book and then it would be another one to two months of the whole illustration, editing and publishing process and once that is finished then we'd have the amazing book launch, i find it very fun and nice ... but also sometimes, I do not really like the attention because it just gets so overwhelming at times.

South African Stacey Fru

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's a great illustration of' Distracting Donald.' This was one of the lowest moments in the history of the American presidency -- that press conference, trump blinked this week. He's Putin's poodle. And that's the reality.

Democratic National Committee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a great example of the lush illustration used at the time and it shows a kind of surrealistic, whimsical approach with people dancing around a giant cigarette.

Jim Heimann

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This meeting in Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 was just another illustration that they're ready to do any avenues, any methods to try to get to this goal, including using unofficial proxies.

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It makes me realize the importance and the role that art and illustration can play when it comes to social issues, it was something that was totally unexpected.

Malika Favre

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The way (Republicans) approach climate change is a good illustration of the problems that they're having, now, let's just take an example: If you went to 100 doctors and 99 of them said you are really sick -- you've got, let's say, high cholesterol.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If anything, the market is expanding, as wealthy Gulf countries subsidise weapons purchases by militaries in less rich countries. Egypt's Rafale deal is the best illustration of that.

Richard Aboulafia

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In those days, there was a belief that illustration showed how the clothes should be worn better than photography, the magazines were split evenly between photographs and illustration. It was the golden age of fashion illustration.

Philip Athill

Found on CNN
9 years ago

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Allen Ginsberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Who you love is an illustration of you... but whomever loves you back is you... in HD.

Ingrid Weir

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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