instructions

In a sentence

Six example sentences with instructions, each labelled with its topic.

• The router arrived without instructions, so an entire evening went into guessing which cable belonged in which socket.

  Technology

• The instructions that came with the second hand enlarger were printed in 1974 and still explained the timer perfectly.

  Photography

• Somebody threw out the instructions for the pressure cooker, and none of us could work out the steam release.

  Cooking

• The console's instructions were four pages long, and three of them explained how to plug in the power lead.

  Gaming

• The synthesizer's instructions were translated so badly that the users' forum wrote its own manual.

  Music

• The rowing machine's instructions show how to adjust the foot straps, which nobody reads until their heels slip.

  Fitness

Found in these word lists

Found in 2 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)

Each source is a published word list that contains instructions. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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