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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The posture of the body is important, here and now: minor discomforts are instructive.† (source)
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And under the pressing fingers and the quiet instructive voice, she would.† (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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I thought you might find it instructive.† (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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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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Not the head," he added instructively, "for the blade may slip off easy.† (source)
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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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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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And very 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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Let's table that thought for a second, because that's instructive, the fact that you were aware of the groups, but didn't seek them out.† (source)
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