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Example sentences for "understand you"

  • Do I understand you to suspect that someone is desirous of harming you?

  • I have tried very hard to understand you," I replied, "and so perhaps up to a point I have succeeded.

  • Do I understand you to mean, Colonel Menendez," he asked, "that you have reason to believe that this conspiracy directed against you is about to come to a head?

  • What----what did I understand you to say ginseng is worth?

  • And how much did I understand you to say it brought a pound?

  • It isn't so hard to understand you now, my boy," he said.

  • Let me understand you clearly," said the man in a dry, breathless voice.

  • It is not until then that one is enabled to take hold of Christian Science effectively, and with the right sense of sympathy and kinship, as I understand you.

  • He said, with just a touch of sarcasm in his bland tones: 'As I understand you, the brakeman didn't say anything?

  • You'll say--as I understand you--that the brakeman insulted this old gentleman.

  • I am not sure that I understand you, Mr. Colton," she said, quietly.

  • I have been trying to understand you, Mr. Paine.

  • But, understand you, she is a lady, with it all, and looks one.

  • Afy," she said at length, "let me understand you.

  • Mr. Carlyle, do I understand you aright--that the body of the late earl has been seized for a debt?

  • You shall endeavour to impart your thoughts to us, and we will make an effort to understand you.

  • And now do you try to explain to us your whole meaning, and we, on our part, will endeavour to understand you.

  • I understand you were so kind as to offer, but another time it will be quite unnecessary.

  • I'm not sure that I understand you," said the correspondent of the Interviewer; "but I expect I shall before I leave.

  • Do I understand you to propose that I should marry Isabel?

  • I don't understand you; you're too paradoxical for my plain mind.

  • I have not the good fortune to understand you, D'Herblay.

  • I understand you; you are at ease as far as the king is concerned?

  • If I understand you, you mean that you don't wish me to have any time for it.

  • Indeed, I was only trying to understand you completely.

  • Yes, I understand you at last, and I admire you more than ever.

  • I understand you've broken with them altogether?

  • I took her hand as I said warmly, "I do understand you, Miss Warren.

  • I understand you, then, that you regard newspapers as good Sunday reading?

  • Now, as I understand you, these friends of yours have no such sauce.

  • I don't know as I understand you," faltered Mrs. Lapham.

  • I don't understand you," faltered Lapham, in bewilderment, which absorbed even his shame.

  • I understand you," he said, "and entirely agree with you.

  • I think I understand you, sir: you would not have a man make a fuss about a trifle.

  • I was puzzled to understand you, but now all is plain!

  • I don't understand you," she said quickly, yet regarding him with stern rigidity.

  • But do I understand you, that SHE has shown any uneasiness regarding it?

  • I don't understand you," said Pendleton amazedly.

  • I am not sure that I understand you entirely; I should be very sorry to explain your words of the other night in the sense they would bear on the lips of an ordinary man.

  • It's difficult to understand you," was all she replied.

  • I don't understand you," Miriam said, in indignation.

  • I fail to understand you," said Marsh, with dignity.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understand you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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