6 sentences with 'illustrate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word illustrate and other words derived from it.
• « According to unbelievers, any prayer is foolishness. In the book The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, written a year before his death, astronomer Carl Sagan included prayer among practices that he believed illustrate the persistence of irrationality, such as astrology, telekinesis, witchcraft and ESP. »
• « Ethnobotanists mention, to illustrate the possibilities of their speciality, the origins of drugs such as quinine, which is taken by malaria patients, and curare, which is used in surgery as a muscle relaxant. »
• « The events of 1741 in New York City illustrate the racial divide in British America, where panic among whites spurred great violence and repression against the feared slave population. »
• « The actions of a group of Scotch-Irish settlers from Paxton (or Paxtang), Pennsylvania, in December 1763, illustrate the deadly situation on the frontier. »
• « The contradictions illustrate the difference between the letter and the spirit of the laws abolishing slavery in Massachusetts. »
• « The state constitutions of the new United States illustrate different approaches to the question of the degree of democracy that would prevail in the thirteen republics. Some states adopted democratic practices, while others adopted much more aristocratic and republican ones. »