Sample sentences for INSTRUCTIVE

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informative (providing desired information)

He had not yet spoken, and something consolatory and instructive was expected from so renowned a chief on an occasion of such interest.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
It was to be both instructive and true, she said.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
I think it was all the more interesting and instructive because we went for most of the way on one of the slow, old-fashioned canal-boats.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Your most instructive pamphlet has been widely circulated through the patronage of the bishop, and has been of appreciable service....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
This is instructive at the same time.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
25 "A maximum of instructive shrecklichkeit with minimum loss of life.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I find it most instructive to follow your train of thought.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
I was fooling myself that this was important or even instructive.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
That was very instructive, although you would have done well to omit your last words.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
Instructive warning pictures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Chapter XXI — Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
On her first day of the two months' preliminary training, Briony's humiliation in front of the class had been instructive.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
The case of India is particularly instructive.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
I found the trip instructive in another way because in that hospital I sensed a thawing in the relationship between black and white.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
In that case, I said to myself, Hamid's silence must be instructive!
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Meanwhile it was in a terrible way instructive to see how Oliver behaved, how unruffled he tried to appear.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
General Lee's various stratagems will be most instructive, most illuminating.
Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
Nevertheless, it is instructive to observe the details.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
His voice was highpitched but deliberate, instructive.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

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