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Example sentences for "quite understand"

  • I quite understand," answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile.

  • I quite understand," said Berg, getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice.

  • I'm afraid I didn't quite understand," he said in a new tone which she had not heard before.

  • It began to seem rather like something in a play when you had missed the first scene and didn't quite understand what it was all about.

  • I don't quite understand," he said, jumping at the other half of my meaning.

  • But one circumstance occurred that I didn't quite understand--the presence of a stranger on the pier with a gun in his hand.

  • The little brown bird preened its wing, and glanced at him sideways intelligently, as much as to say: "I quite understand!

  • I quite understand that, sir,” the gentleman snapped out at once to assure him that he knew who he was already.

  • Then I didn’t quite understand you,” said Katerina Ivanovna slowly, turning a little pale.

  • Drawing him on] Yes, Sir; I quite understand.

  • That's the only thing you won't do for me, I quite understand.

  • Taking up his pail] I quite understand, sir; I've been a married man myself.

  • Oh, yes, I quite understand," Vincent said.

  • I quite understand, believe me, the painfulness of your position.

  • Thanks, so much," she said, "I quite understand now.

  • I quite understand," said the Dowager, "and will respect your feelings.

  • I don't think I quite understand," she said, looking puzzled.

  • I don't think I quite understand," he said, after a long pause.

  • If I was mistaken--But I quite understand.

  • I quite understand," was the perfectly unruffled rejoinder.

  • I quite understand," said Bones, all a-quiver with excitement.

  • I don't quite understand it all, but the things they were printing were invitations to a German lottery.

  • A poet's field is universal, and I quite understand that if he writes nice things about his friends he doesn't mean it.

  • But I'm afraid you don't quite understand.

  • But I don't think I quite understand you.

  • Of course, I quite understand that it is only a temporary arrangement, but you will try to put up with it, won't you?

  • Of course, sir, I quite understand this is not the sort of thing or the sort of place to which you are accustomed," he said, waving a deprecatory hand round the shabby little parlour.

  • I quite understand," he said, and his tone was one of conviction.

  • I quite understand, for of course we haven't ever much money to spend.

  • I quite understand my brother,' she said coldly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite 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:
    bred animals; certain knowledge; inquired what; quite capable; quite certain; quite correct; quite early; quite easily; quite enough; quite impossible; quite independently; quite large; quite naked; quite near; quite recent; quite right; quite satisfied; quite true; quite unable; quite understand; quite variable; quite well; quite willing; stands pledged; that place; understand things