INFORMATIVE in a Sentence

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Madame de Sourdis, when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to weep, through sniffling at her salts.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFORMATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
informative
 a.  instructive and illustrative; providing or conveying information
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The first I shall mention, relates to informers.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  Now you talk against the Irish informers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  For the one discouraged informers and gave heart to those who were disposed to conspire, the other prepared an easy road to his own death, or rather was prime mover in a conspiracy against himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  I was informed that the very religious Knights of Malta never fail to make this search when they take any Turkish prisoners of either sex.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
5  I was informed of your passage at Bordeaux, where I left faithful Cacambo and the old woman, who are to follow me very soon.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
6  I have been informed of the frightful disasters that befell the family of my lady Baroness, and the fair Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
7  The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
8  Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
9  When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
10  In truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed that they were women.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
11  You will keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
12  A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in which he stood.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
13  Madame de Sourdis, when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to weep, through sniffling at her salts.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
14  In any case, you ought to perceive that I am well informed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
15  And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to Thenardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We cannot release the names of the soldiers who were killed until we have informed their next of kin.
17  The name of the dead man will not be released until his relatives have been informed.
18  There needs to be a properly informed public debate.
19  The Chinese respondents were quite well informed the three main routes of infection: unprotected sex, dirty needles, and mother-to-child transmission.
20  He informed that his resignation was effective immediately and never back office once more.
21  The meeting of the United Nations General Assembly was marked with such acerbity that informed sources held out little hope of reaching any useful settlement of the problem.
22  In answer to my inquiries, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected.
23  The US government agency responsible for classifying viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification when it was informed that it had been widely circulated.
24  With all respect, you have made yourself abundantly clear in an informed and articulate manner.
25  The big tobacco companies have always insisted that they provide customers with enough detail to make an informed decision.
26  I have some information you may be able to use.
27  She accused them of leaking confidential information about her private life.
28  RAM stores information for immediate access.
29  They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database.
30  If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.