If Miss Schlegel had been poor, if she had wanted a house, I could understand it a little.
He could understand that a man unable to marry should be reticent as to his feelings,--supposing him to have been weak enough to have succumbed to a passion which could only mar his own prospects.
And, as far as he could understand, she would not have been so banished had she consented to say that she would give up her acquaintance with him.
There was certainly a love affair of which he did not personally approve, as the gentleman had no fixed income and as far as he could understand no fixed profession.
He could understand that a girl should not marry a man whom she did not like; but he could not understand how any girl should not love such a suitor as was Mr. Glascock.
I went with the man, and was conducted to a large house, where the chief and several other persons of note were assembled in council, as well as I could understand.
The latter signifies chief, and the former burying, or sleeping-place, as well as we could understand.
So much I could understand, and also that he calls himself Brother Martin Luther, not Brother Augustine, a name he assumed on first entering the cloister.
It was called Reinecke Fuchs, and as far as I could understand made a jest of everything.
He got on excellently well with the old salt whose boat they used, for he was at his best with simple folk, whose lingo he could understand about as much as they could understand his.
I do wish grandfather would say something one could understand.
You see, I loathed having to put up with her caresses and her kisses, but I could understandhow a man must feel, if she liked him .
I could understand how he felt: he hated the camp and he hated to leave his Vyvy, and I knew he spent all morning trying to decide whether the outfit really would leave that night.
If the taxicabs were merely very dear, I could understand; if they were merely very bad, I could understand; if they were merely numerically insufficient for the number of people willing to pay for taxicabs, I could understand.
Under the layer of brush, a narrow, funnel-like shaft had been hid, which apparently descended into the heart of the mouldering desert sentinel, but why this hole had been covered was more than we could understand.
He was also future mayor of the camp, and so was, as Phil had put it, quite an important individual in his way; but how we could benefit by giving him Emu Bill's name and compliments was more than I could understand.
The whole structure presented an appearance not unlike a Chinese pagoda in miniature; the meaning of the arrangement was more than I could understand.
She added after a pause--"There has been a time when I could understand him.
I followed him everywhere, watching for some word I could understand; but his mind was in the land of his people--away from me.
There was something at last he could understand--the clear effect of a simple cause.
Just why it should enrage her confederate was more than I could understand.
The fury of the man in the shaggy and bear-like dressing-gown was more than I could understand.
The latter laughed, for no reason that I could understand, and over his shoulder bawled out the one word, "Shimmey!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could understand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
