Example Sentences

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In Pride and Pleasure, Vaill uses two voices, applying tone aesthetically and instructively, almost as Miranda does.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

“Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold,” crisply curated by Iria Candela, is less auspicious, though it is instructively timed for reflecting on recently changed perceptions of modern art.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2019

There was an instructively comparable non-crisis in Washington shortly after Andrew Jackson became president. 

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2015

The author instructively maps the locations in Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse.”

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2014

They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama