"illustrate for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to introduce an example or explanation that supports or elaborates on a previous statement or idea. Example: "To better understand how climate change affects ocean life, let me illustrate for you through the following scenario. Imagine a coral reef ecosystem in which rising sea temperatures have bleached the corals, causing a decline in fish populations."
You don't have to be a professional illustrator to illustrate for wikiHow, just as you don't have to be a professional writer to write for wikiHow.
Some of his funniest work involves longer comic set pieces that illustrate, for instance, a politician's changing positions.
Following the demise of the Silent Three, Posy continued to illustrate for the Guardian and the archive have many superb examples of her work from 1988 to 2004.
The first festival was Mr. Sapoznik's idea; his goal was to illustrate for Jewish musicians that they belonged to a larger tradition.
It suffers from a dearth of contextual information; it would be nice to illustrate, for example, how the beaded rectangular ear pendants of the Masai are worn.
Picturing the Environment In June, nine artists were engaged to create works that relate to environmental issues facing Connecticut, in an effort to illustrate for the public some solutions as well as examples of environmental degradation.
Professor Jeremy Spencer, department of food and nutritional sciences, said: "These exciting results illustrate for the first time that the moderate consumption of champagne has the potential to influence cognitive functioning, such as memory.
Not so Mr. Zinsser's attempts to illustrate for musically untrained readers the dips and curves of famous tunes through the use of confusing charts that plot single syllables against lettered pitches.
Mr. Yarmuth said that he and many other House Democrats wanted their Senate colleagues to force Republicans to spend hours filibustering various bills, to illustrate for constituents why legislation is stalling.
Back in 1931, during his Judge and Esso days, the Viking Press asked him to illustrate, for a modest flat fee, a collection of schoolboys' howlers that was to be brought out under the title "Boners".
The charts illustrate for the US and the UK the relationship between the participation rate, which is the proportion of those aged 16+ that are in the labour force, that is employed or unemployed, and the unemployment rate.
