Adjective : illustrative examples. From Dictionary.com.
That is the crux, illustratively, of what happened. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Opening Statements in Seminole County Absentee Ballot Case - December 6, 2000] Reference
He held out his entangled hands to her and waggled his thumb illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
The suggestion of HTML+CSS may be bad, but was meant illustratively: there are semantic formats that allow to make readable papers!. From Wordnik.com. [No, PDFs really do suck!] Reference
But aside from that, let me hit a couple of highlights and then I just want to show Your Honor a couple of exhibits in the timeline illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Opening Statements in Seminole County Absentee Ballot Case - December 6, 2000] Reference
Again, participation ranged from the self-conscious to the over-assertive, with the conduct of the two Reflected Gleam delegates illustratively calibrating the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
MR. BERGER: Well, the benchmarks will be -- what I've tried to do, what the President tried to do was to give you illustratively the nature of what such benchmarks will be. From Wordnik.com. [Nsa Briefing On Bosnia] Reference
It is perhaps most illustratively displayed in the green painted lettering above the door on the old grange, where the last "e" in Greene appears to have been painted over in white. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
When women go out -- they couldn't vote before; they vote now and get their fingers cut off, if I were writing the president's speech, I might start with that or put that somewhere illustratively in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009] Reference
If I'm running a comic book store in the Bay Area and I see that one of the biggest shops in the area isn't ordering a sure bet, I'd be a fool not to double down (well, okay, I said 25%, but I'm just speaking illustratively at this point). From Wordnik.com. [With Marvel’s Reborn, will retail history repeat itself? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
But that the reader may judge of the degree in which opium is likely to stupefy the faculties of an Englishman, I shall (by way of treating the question illustratively, rather than argumentatively) describe the way in which I myself often passed an opium evening in London during the period between 1804-1812. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Even in the course of an event as widespread and momentous as the Islamic Revolution in 1978/79, periods of intense conflict, protest and action were not constant and events followed a pattern more sporadic and cyclic than constant (and, no, I am not suggesting any kind of one-to-one similarity between the current movement and the Islamic Revolution, merely citing it illustratively.). From Wordnik.com. [Ajay Singh Chaudhary: Taking the Long View on Iran] Reference
"No," said the pawnbroker, shutting his lips illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant] Reference
Rules were drawn up, one or two of which are given illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners of Poverty Abroad] Reference
All this, mythically, illustratively, and by no means doctrinally or polemically. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Most illustratively, Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers do not believe in the 11th Commandment. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
I think that demonstrates probably as illustratively as anything why health care reform can't wait. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Lamb alludes to the preface to the edition of 1815 of Wordsworth's poems, where he quotes illustratively from his. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
In these terms of use, the word "including" is used illustratively, as if followed by the words "but not limited to.". From Wordnik.com. [Rugby news from Scrum.com] Reference
In the Roman strike of last April a partial miracle of the same nature was illustratively wrought, with the same alarming effect on the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
In this way, besides, we shall exhibit, better than in any other, the condensed logical force of the Evidence, illustratively expanded in the succeeding section. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
Hoshin Engi, is so visually, illustratively, and graphically imaginative that he manages to produce each panel in a way that at least one element in it will capture the reader's attention. From Wordnik.com. [comicbookbin.com] Reference
I do not remember how this animal imposed himself illustratively on the Evolution controversy; but there was no getting away from him then; and I am old-fashioned enough to be unable to get away from him now. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Methuselah] Reference
He painted passages and incidents in her pictures, sometimes illustratively, and sometimes for the pleasure of having their lives blended in their work, and he tried to see how nearly he could lose his work in hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference
"Without a doubt, opponents of women's freedom and privacy will use this vacancy on the court as an opportunity to further their attacks on nominees who have taken pro-choice positions," NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan stated Friday, illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
But that the reader may judge of the degree in which opium is likely to stupefy the faculties of an Englishman, I shall (by way of treating the question illustratively, rather than argumentatively) describe the way in which I myself often passed an opium evening in London during the period between. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
But I think there are a lot of different points to cover, and to cover any given point more deeply and more illustratively, I’d need to know a bit more about what specific kind of dangers, and in what context of discourse, you’re interested in my views on. From Wordnik.com. [What’s really wrong with relativism?] Reference
Even as she lay on her couch, too prostrate to either read or work, she made audacious satirical speeches, and told Miss MacDowlas stories of Vagabondia, just as she used to tell them to Grif himself, only that in these days she could not get up to flourish illustratively; and often after lying for an hour or so in a dead, heavy, exhausting day-sleep, she opened her eyes at last, to jest about her faithful discharge of her duties as companion. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabondia 1884] Reference
Cheran and Huetamo were used only illustratively. From Wordnik.com. [Other than Morelia and P�tzcuaro] Reference
"Last week," Bradley continued, illustratively, "I finished an index, wrote some verses for a pictorial advertisement of Appleblossom's Toilet. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
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