In a sentence
Six example sentences with illustration, each labelled with its topic.
The publisher commissioned one full-page illustration for each chapter, and the ink drawings sold better than the novel itself.
Art
A single illustration of the marsh at dusk opens the book, and readers remember it long after the plot fades.
Literature
The competition entry included a watercolor illustration of the courtyard in summer, which won more votes than the floor plans.
Architecture
Each recipe comes with an illustration of the finished dish, so you know what a properly folded dumpling looks like.
Cooking
The manuscript's illustration of a harvest shows tools that no written source of the period ever describes.
History
The app's onboarding uses one illustration per screen, and testers understood the sync feature without reading a word.
Technology
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains illustration. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.