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Example sentences for "cannot understand"

  • How he could hate me and tell scandalous stories about me, living among children as he did, is what I cannot understand.

  • He's sitting there over his bottle--and how they can give him credit, I cannot understand.

  • How is anyone to tell a story which he cannot understand himself?

  • Well, I must say, I cannot understand it!

  • But why he was made such a fool of I cannot understand.

  • But how Miss Melburn came to be here is what I cannot understand," asserted Frank.

  • There's a mystery about this that I cannot understand," murmured Frank.

  • How it comes that he is here I cannot understand.

  • I cannot understand it," Harry said, as they sat down to their meal at dusk.

  • I cannot understand how it has escaped the notice of the Spaniards all these years.

  • Well, of course I cannot understand it, Harry, and it seems to me that one girl is very like another; she may be a bit prettier than the average, but I suppose that comes to all the same thing in another twenty years.

  • I cannot understand calmness; I don't like it.

  • But these people, one a clergyman, the other the daughter of a land proprietor, why they want to uplift the people, I cannot understand.

  • I cannot understand it; but my heart turned softer when I recognized that there is truth in men, and that not all are to blame for their foulness and filth.

  • Even that in God which we cannot understand is ours.

  • That he cannot understand will no longer distress him; it will only urge him to fresh endeavour after the knowledge of him who in all his doings is perfect.

  • Everything, in truth, which we cannot understand, is a closed book of larger knowledge and blessedness, whose clasps the blessed perplexity urges us to open.

  • And beyond all our discoveries in his words and being, there lie depths within depths of truth that we cannot understand, and yet shall be ever going on to understand.

  • How any man, no matter what his need may be, could ask you to put yourself in such jeopardy, I cannot understand.

  • I cannot understand, therefore, why you undertook my rescue from prison.

  • You have already said so, but I cannot understand of what importance I am to the State.

  • I cannot understand that, I must confess, Seth.

  • I cannot understand it," said the surgeon.

  • I can understand that Elsa is disagreeable to you because I have educated her, but I cannot understand how, tied to your invalid chair as you are, you have contrived to fall in love with this Moellner.

  • Only that I have a truth, which I cannot understand, which gives me no help, or but little?

  • Therefore, when a Christian tells him of the resurrection of the body he cannot understand.

  • How can I trust in a God whom I cannot understand or know?

  • I give it up," he sighed, "I cannot understand it.

  • I cannot understand why he does not use it.

  • But I cannot understand how a cubicle with floor, ceiling and walls of steel, could so suddenly become insanitary.

  • No; I cannot understand it," and Pachmann mopped his face again.

  • He sees that the world is too big for him to overturn, he realises that there are many things he cannot understand, his intelligence sometimes revolts at what seems to be oppression and injustice.

  • I could go down upon my knees to ask her pardon, and yet I cannot understand it.

  • He cannot understand it: inconceivable that the reality has not corresponded to his program of it; that France was not all-great, that he was not France.

  • We cannot understand it, we know not how to speak of it; but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so.

  • I cannot understand how they dared to send it to me in any such way; indeed, I cannot understand a good many things that have come to me through you.

  • He will have too much sense to give voice to things he cannot understand, or expression to feelings he has never known.

  • This may be a very fine speech, but it would be thrown away upon Emile, as he cannot understand it, and he does not accept second-hand opinions.

  • Never tell the child what he cannot understand: no descriptions, no eloquence, no figures of speech, no poetry.

  • God knows what all this means; I cannot understand it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot understand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot abide; cannot attempt; cannot avoid; cannot come; cannot deny; cannot endure; cannot escape; cannot give; cannot hold; cannot know; cannot leave; cannot love; cannot omit; cannot remember; cannot represent; cannot say; cannot think; cannot understand; horned cattle; little frightened; most excellent; personal immortality; public enemies; seconds south; speak again; thousand crowns