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The phrase "use as an illustration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to clarify or exemplify a point by providing a specific example or case. Example: "To better understand the concept of gravity, we can use as an illustration the way an apple falls from a tree."
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And a very 1950s Dickinson this was, starting with the portrait used as an illustration.
Union negotiators responded that those figures were merely used as an illustration.
It was done in 1955 and it's still being used as an illustration.
And here's another one, used as an illustration in the philosopher Avishai Margalit's "The Ethics of Memory".
"The bottom of a champagne bottle is in the shape of the Higgs potential, and is often used as an illustration in physics lectures.
A: In the very few textbooks that discuss four-winged fruit flies, they are used as an illustration of how genes can reprogram parts of the body to produce novel structures, thus indeed providing "raw material" for evolution.
It uses as an illustration the helplessness and complete dependence of a kitten being carried by its mother; hence, its doctrine is known as marjara-nyaya ("the analogy of the cat").
Body Shop has been used as an illustration.
Industrial site transition is used as an illustration for land use transition process.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is used as an illustration of the challenges in studying complex phenotypes with nutrigenomics concepts and approaches.
Since (CRSP 2018), Compustat, and TAQ are proprietary databases, while the Fama-French data is free, Fama-French datasets will be used as an illustration.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com