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Example sentences for "understand something"

  • Secondly, anyone can experience this of himself, that when he tries to understand something, he forms certain phantasms to serve him by way of examples, in which as it were he examines what he is desirous of understanding.

  • Further, to understand one's act of understanding, is to understand something that is neither great nor chiefly understood, but secondary and accessory.

  • Wherefore I advise that you read the five books of Moses often; yea, read, and read again, and do not despair of help to understand something of the will and mind of God therein, though you think they are fast locked up from you.

  • Colonel, beginning to understand something, and leaning forward so as not to miss a single syllable.

  • I began to understand something of the reason of his excitement.

  • She, too, seemed to understand something of the awkwardness, and did her best to break it up by one or two of her frivolous gambols.

  • He even began to understand something of the general fear he inspired.

  • Her big motherly heart was trying to understand something of the anguish she would have known had that waif not come to her then; and she thought of the anguish that other mother must have known if the story she heard were true.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understand something" 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:
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