How to Use instructive in a Sentence

instructive

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• Here, key lessons of the war in Ukraine are instructive.
  — Larry Diamond, Jim Ellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
• The echoes from the earliest days of the Tea Party are instructive.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• 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
• Sean McVay is instructive to how the Spanoses go about filling such a big job.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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 difficulties on set can be just as instructive as the times when things are going well.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• But Afghanistan is instructive in a different way as well.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• In my opinion, there are three differently instructive failures among the works in the present show.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• But comparing the two writers turns out to be instructive.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2022
• This is an instructive origin story for a field of research.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The other example, though, is even more instructive for what the Buckeyes want to accomplish over the next five months.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2022
• But in the interim, it’s been instructive to see how his campaign has turned to a grip-and-grin style of politicking.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• Ratcliffe’s approach is perhaps the most instructive of what is likely to come.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Putting these numbers aside, the relative costs are instructive to note.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The disagreements between the company and the government along the way are instructive, too.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• That made the crowd-pleasing set by Electric Light Orchestra, which followed, all the more instructive.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• An opinion like that makes for good, instructive reading.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The lessons of a long and twisting road back home may be instructive for Griner, Shaw said, as another family learns to cope with a new normal.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
• World War II comparisons are a dime a dozen these days, but a different cataclysm of the 1940s is more instructive.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2022
• Yet the book remains instructive because, as with so many polemics, a flawed central premise hints at some important truths.
  — Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Here's how the bride got a do-over Monaco's experience is instructive.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• The vote on overturning a crime bill passed by the liberal Council of the District of Columbia was instructive.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
• Instagram is likely instructive here, as well: The main view of the app has become overwhelmed with suggested Reels and posts.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024