EXPLICATE in a Sentence

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de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPLICATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
explicate
 v.  explain;make clear the meaning of; unfold meaning or sense of
Classic Sentence:
1  And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS
Example Sentence:
1  Harry Levin used to explicate James Joyce's often bewildering novels with such clarity that even Finnegan's Wake seemed comprehensible to his students.
2  We shall have to explicate its basic assumptions before we can assess its implications.
3  The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
4  The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.