How to Use elucidate in a Sentence

elucidate

verb

• When asked for details, he declined to elucidate further.
• Their blooms elucidate the first warm day of the season as not just a feeling, but a fact.
  — Sara Tardiff, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Signals of changes in the climate are harder to elucidate in these blazes.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• Now, a new study of the scroll is elucidating some of the methods that kept it intact for millennia.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
• This reading of the video elucidates a visual metaphor: The sand in the video and the rugs in the room are etched with crosshairs, evoking the ever-present danger of gun violence in America.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
• The team’s findings add to, rather than elucidate, the mysteries surrounding the canvas.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2019
• These plans elucidate the facts about the local species, its threats, and measures of conservation.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• To cut to the chase, Taylor elucidates that there was a quid pro quo in the Trump administration’s conduct of relations with Kyiv.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Oct. 2019
• Astronomers hope that studying bursts that repeat their flashes, rather than just flare once, can help to elucidate the origins of FRBs.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• Joe elucidated his view that New York was the industry’s one and only mecca.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• But a closer reading elucidates what that brand always was.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Maloney has an uncanny ability to recall and elucidate moments that couldn’t have been very clear at the time.
  — Chris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• Stephanie Wickens, writing for Healthista last year, elucidates a bit more clearly how the world Rowling created pushed her to learn to read.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 27 June 2017
• Woodpiles are one of the most mundane yet elucidating details O’Connor has studied.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2017
• Dialect is used not to define but to elucidate character.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• And get there early to hear Zander’s lucid and elucidating introduction to the program, which will be like getting fit with a fresh pair of ears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• James Bardeen, who helped elucidate the properties and behavior of black holes, setting the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics, died on June 20 in Seattle.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2022
• One suspects that the points Sankoff and Hein sought to elucidate precluded any more comprehensive portrayal of the conflicts and tensions that must have arisen.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Is unfit to protect government of the people, by the people, for the people as elucidated in the Gettysburg Address.
  — NBC News, 17 July 2019
• The team wants to perform further tests to elucidate the physical aspects of the artifacts, including the composition of the ink and the production of the parchment.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2020
• Climate response time is one of the important 'details' that climate models help to elucidate.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
• There’s some odd emotional connection between the two, one Shyamalan tries to elucidate in flashbacks to a hunting trip that a younger Casey took with her father and uncle.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 19 Jan. 2017
• Pinterest declined to elucidate whether the difference was due to rounding.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• If your marketer or team does not focus on the brand promise and elucidate it in the brand experience and messaging, then your branding means nothing to your customers.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The Verge claims to have gotten its hands on Netflix internal documents which elucidate some of the ways in which the company attempted to mitigate the damage caused by Cuties.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 28 Oct. 2021
• Some of them have already been clearly elucidated by John Gruber back in November, 2018.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 24 July 2019
• When humor was needed to elucidate the matter, Irwin unfurled some of his own matchless clowning skills.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• That means working towards structural change, not just surface change, and committing to tracking the metrics which elucidate that—things like water use, and toxic waste.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 12 Dec. 2019
• Triad Trails, a walking tour through Chinatown, elucidates the city's battles against gangs and drugs from the 1890s to the present; the guides are former gang members who have served prison sentences and worked their way back into society.
  — Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2023
• Moreover, the limits of what is desirable to promote abroad are drawn by truth, elucidated by reason and inlayed in tradition.
  — Jakub Grygiel, National Review, 21 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024