לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

illustration

CEFR B2

artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

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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