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Six example sentences with illustrate, each labelled with its topic.
To illustrate how a shortage moves price, the professor auctioned four sandwiches to a lecture hall of ninety hungry students.
Economics
The therapist would illustrate the point with a story about a driver who checks a locked door eleven times.
Psychology
The professor used a stolen bicycle and a borrowed one to illustrate why intent decides which charge a prosecutor files.
Law
To illustrate the ship of Theseus, the teacher replaced the planks of a toy boat one by one during the lecture.
Philosophy
The coach used two clips to illustrate why the weak-side defender must sink toward the paint on every drive.
Basketball
The advisor used a jar of coins to illustrate compounding, adding a tenth of the pile back in each round.
Finance
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