All 9 Uses of
illustrate
in
The Fountainhead
- Our Mr. Parker's son is studying architecture and we had him draw us up a sketch, just a rough sketch to illustrate what we had in mind and to show the members of the board, because they couldn't have visualized the compromise we offered.
Chpt 1.15 *illustrate = help make clear
- He ran a series of illustrated articles on "The Churches of Our Childhood."
Chpt 2.12 *illustrated = accompanied by drawings
- "The incident illustrates to perfection," wrote Ellsworth Toohey, "the antisocial nature of Mr. Howard Roark's egotism, the arrogance of the unbridled individualism which he has always personified."†
Chpt 4.1illustrates = helps make clear
- It lent itself to Sunday-supplement illustrations of girls leaping into rivers, their skirts flaring well above their knees.†
Chpt 1.12
- The architect is the concrete illustration of a cosmic paradox.†
Chpt 2.8
- A society woman wrote an article on the exotic shrines she had seen in her dangerous jungle travels, praised the touching faith of the savages and reproached modern man for cynicism; the Stoddard Temple, she said, was a symptom of softness and decadence; the illustration showed her in breeches, one slim foot on the neck of a dead lion.†
Chpt 2.12
- One story was illustrated with scientific diagrams; the other—with the picture of a loose-mouthed girl wearing a tragic expression and disarranged clothes.†
Chpt 3.1
- He tore it from the story it illustrated, and slipped it into his desk drawer.†
Chpt 4.2
- Let me give you a simple illustration.†
Chpt 4.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example
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(2)
(illustrate as in: an illustrated children's book) to draw pictures (or provide photographs) to accompany a book or other writing