How to Use instructive in a Sentence

instructive

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• To the rest of the world, the hypocrisy is glaring and instructive.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Here, key lessons of the war in Ukraine are instructive.
  — Larry Diamond, Jim Ellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
• In that sense, the book’s title makes for an instructive play on words.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• The echoes from the earliest days of the Tea Party are instructive.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• One drama that’s played out in the background of the month’s events should be instructive for them.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
• The instructive aspect of the day was as helpful as the guiding one.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
• There are instructive and hopeful lessons from the past.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
• And the seniors profiled in the story were full of good cheer: this was instructive.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• But what Vegas thinks about the Beavers is instructive.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• The most instructive, for me, at least, was about her time working as a makeup artist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• The case of Mitch Daniels is an instructive example of this.
  — Kyle Griesinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• One of the most instructive moments is how many bad ideas there are that get abandoned.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Sean McVay is instructive to how the Spanoses go about filling such a big job.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• Though The Hand is by no means his best work, its qualities are instructive.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• No one wears a turtleneck sweater quite like Maxwell and the way his fit–close to his frame, but not at all clingy—are instructive for any man.
  — Caroline Reilly, Town & Country, 18 May 2021
• More than a decade of guidance by Jarrah has been instructive, Kafeel says.
  — Rifat Malik, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• But here is where my memory of that day on 14th Street is instructive.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• In this light, comparing China’s response to the war in Gaza with its response to the war in Ukraine is instructive.
  — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
• The good news: There is no answer Munger’s legacy is instructive.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• The difficulties on set can be just as instructive as the times when things are going well.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The dearth of inflation in the years that followed may be instructive today.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• As for what Putin does now, the 2004 terrorist attack in Beslan may be instructive.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
• But, at the very least, there are chilling and instructive parallels.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• How the women dealt with their challenges is instructive.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• That’s a very instructive point when people say E.V.s are not desired.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• At the meeting, Spergel said the history of fast radio bursts is instructive.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
• Actions are more instructive about a team’s intentions than words, and the release of Leno, 29, means Jenkins could be the Week 1 starter on the blind side.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
• The Hunter Biden laptop saga sure is instructive about something.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• Yet, here too, the parallel with Johnson is instructive.
  — Marc J. Selverstone / Made By History, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
• It’s been instructive, too, to observe novice backpackers attempt it one hiking pole and electrolyte pouch at a time.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024