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Example sentences for "understood nothing"

  • He said a thousand absurdities to them upon his expenditure, of which he understood nothing, and unceasingly looked towards the window, without appearing to do so, secretly sighing for a prompt deliverance.

  • I understood nothing of all this superstition, but I was forced to rest content in my ignorance.

  • I represented to him my unskilfulness in all finance matters; that Law would in vain speak a language to me of which I understood nothing, that we should both lose our time very uselessly.

  • He, Pierre, though he understood nothing clearly, could divine the approach of some frightful horror.

  • He was terrified by the thought that he understood nothing, hence was unfitted to rule; but he feared to confess this even to himself.

  • But when he had gone forth from the temple and seen the sun and the throng of delighted people, he confessed in his soul that he understood nothing.

  • He understood nothing outside of these conditions of existence.

  • They loved only hunting, understood nothing else, talked only of that, lived only for that.

  • He understood nothing of it all; it was all very well to listen--he did not follow.

  • And she began telling him everything, hurriedly, disjointedly, exaggerating the facts, inventing many, and so prodigal of parentheses that he understood nothing of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abundant evidence; after preaching; ascending from; complex sentence; equivalent amount; franc pieces; great captain; great soldier; hasty meal; historical value; holy angels; human responsibility; lose sight; mathematical instruments; nothing came; our view; quickly made; right enough; there lived; understood afterwards; understood from; understood nothing; understood only; understood that; white vitriol; will forgive