Why some people should worry their brains to make those little black marks on paper, and others should trouble to make out what they mean, is more than I can understand.
But that a Roman should have been discontented with his gods is more than I can understand.
How Caesar, who has the world at his command, can spend his time with actors and buffoons, is more than I can understand.
How he is to have the cheek to go into his Lordship's house after what he is doing is more than I can understand.
You have made ever so many difficulties as far as I can understand.
Shooting I can understand, for you have your birds.
I can understand this,--that you have betrayed me; and that I shall tell him so in the plainest words that I can use.
I can understand, then, how an imaginative and reverential mind can find the truest religious life only in connection with ritual and sacrament.
I can understand, moreover, the reaction in this direction, which is taking place at the present day.
On this hypothesis we can understand how it is that the face blushes much more than any other part of the body, though the whole surface is somewhat affected, more especially with the races which still go nearly naked.
Of this latter fact we have indeed clear evidence in her eyes becoming slightly suffused with tears; and we can understand this, as the lacrymal glands are less under the control of the will than the facial muscles.
That excuse does not satisfy me; I can understand that it is easier to speak of certain things to a father than to a mother, but don't you know that never since your boyhood have I tried to keep you in leading-strings?
I can understand how it goes against the grain, but--well, you must indemnify Schmitt with another property.
I can understand no condition, my brother, a woman worthy of your esteem could impose, which should one moment weigh in the same scale against the inexpiable crime of self destruction.
Now that you no longer speak and act in parables, I can understand you.
We can understand, then, the meaning of the evidence obtained from the new star in the Northern Crown.
We can understand that, while several have been found who have applauded the sea-bird paradox for what it might do in explaining comets' tails, its advocates have as yet not done much to reconcile it with cometic observation.
She addressed her question to Mrs. March, who answered: "I can understand.
I can understand my arms being regarded by them as a most valuable capture, but why they did not finish me at once, instead, of taking me away with them, is more than I can understand, unless it be that they are cannibals.
I find you here, for no reason that I can understand, in possession of something I cannot be expected to understand!
But if you speak to me of Tristram's happiness, or of his conscience, which is more than happiness to him, then I can understand you.
I never heard tell of the black dog of Dooniskey, or your old grandfather, or the fairies who wanted to steal him either, but what the fairies wanted him for is more than I can understand," said Micus.
Well,' ses the King, 'what the devil a man with as much sense as yourself wants committing suicide for is more than I can understand!
Devil the bit, and why people should go to the inconvenience of annoying themselves in order to please nobody is more than I can understand.
Now too we can understand that he who died had after a short while to rise again from the dead, and this in order to ascend into heaven in splendour and glory and to unite himself with God the Father above.
We are referred to our Gospels, as Paul also says little of the life of Jesus; and we can understand how it is that attempts are always being made to remove him, as an historical person, from the past.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can understand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
