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Example sentences for "would understand"

  • We must rise higher than that; we must feel, if we would understand the 'unspeakable gift,' that it is the gift of Himself to dwell within us by His Spirit as the very spirit of our lives.

  • We must take all these points of view together if we would understand any of them, for they are not contradictory, but complementary.

  • The whole of the varieties in the use of the term can be all reconciled in the one simple central notion, but we cannot afford to lose sight of any of them if we would understand what is meant by this prayer.

  • It isn't that I don't think he would understand--but it's just like that sentence in his letter about me.

  • She had raised her eyes, and was looking straight at me; and again in those eyes I read pleading and entreaty, and perhaps a prayer that I would understand.

  • And it seemed more than possible that God would understand.

  • But I saw in a moment that if I did that he would understand that he had been robbed of his vengeance from the very start, and had brought himself to his present pass for nothing; for the woman he had pursued was living still.

  • But I thought that because he was an artist he would understand; and that if I could make the music tell him of the mountains it would, perhaps, help him a little to make his work beautiful and right--do you see?

  • Perhaps, some day, he would understand--perhaps.

  • But she would leave a little note and Myra--dear Myra with her disfigured face--would understand.

  • He would understand--perhaps better than she.

  • Perhaps Mr. Penzance would accept it because he would understand what it meant of feeling and appreciation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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