Sample Sentences forinstructive (auto-selected)
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If I had wanted to stop you it would have been only too easy — however, I felt it would be instructive to let them see …. (source)instructive = informative (helping to teach)
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As I passed Alex, she grumbled, "Thanks, that was very instructive."† (source)
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It was to be both instructive and true, she said.† (source)
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Mrs. Walker would read us an instructive passage from the Bible.† (source)
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And under the pressing fingers and the quiet instructive voice, she would.† (source)
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The posture of the body is important, here and now: minor discomforts are instructive.† (source)
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Well, sir, I was reading a story out loud to them from the Bible, and I thought instead it might be more instructive maybe — to sort of — well, to act it out, and —† (source)
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My father, before he met an unfortunate accident ...my father was a great admirer of Julius Streicher for this reason—he applauded the way in which Herr Streicher has satirized so instructively this degenerate trait in the Jewish character.† (source)
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These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninstructive means not and reverses the meaning of instructive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Titch looked at him rarely, and always with an instructive frown; I sensed a tenderness there, so that a pain rose in my throat and I looked swiftly away.† (source)
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Not the head," he added instructively, "for the blade may slip off easy.† (source)
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And you'd lose the very instructive example you could make, letting everyone watch you line up nearly all of Ime's Administration on the station concourse and shoot them in the head, one after the other.† (source)
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It wasn't a way of talking that I was used to—possibly I had never talked that way before— but I knew I could get used to it in a heartbeat, that here I had stumbled on a prerogative of parenthood I hadn't thought of before (I'd thought only how I would be tender and affectionate and patient and instructive).† (source)
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I have wondered, incidentally: does Our Father have his Bibles so entirely in mind that he can select an instructive verse and calculate backward to the one-hundredth previous?† (source)
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And very instructive.† (source)
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If it was true, Abby thought, that she represented a recurring figure in Mrs. Whitshank's life—the "sympathizer"—it was equally true that Mrs. Whitshank's type had shown up before in Abby's life: the instructive older woman.† (source)
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