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Example sentences for "you understand"

  • It's HIS room, you understand, and if there's any money it's here.

  • Do you understand what I am talking about?

  • You understand, then," he was saying, "you understand?

  • You understand me; I would have a person whose sole business should be to read day and night, and talk to me whenever I wanted him to.

  • I was talking all this time to our boarders, you understand,-- telling them what this poet told me.

  • But you mustn't talk business with him, you understand?

  • You understand that I told you for your own good?

  • You understand, we can never get married.

  • That's the first short speech, do you understand?

  • You understand to what I allude, Mr Wegg?

  • That's the last short speech, do you understand?

  • You understand I am piecing here bits of disconnected statements.

  • After the first shock, you understand, I recovered very quickly.

  • Don't you understand that I won't let you buy shelter from me at the cost of your very soul.

  • You understand that I am not their friend.

  • This don't count as between you and me, you understand,' said Mr Tapley.

  • You understand me, Mr Pinch, I think,' returned his patron.

  • The truth was they had kicked him out of a big steam-ship company for disgraceful conduct; nothing to affect his certificate, you understand; and he had gone down quite easily.

  • It's no time to be fooling about alongside, you understand.

  • And Bamtz would have told them if I hadn't--you understand?

  • He is the cure who rules over the other cures, you understand.

  • You understand, Father Madeleine, the government will notice it.

  • Because I bent my arm and rested my hand on my elbow--so; do you understand what I mean?

  • The count told me the whole story, without entering into particulars--you understand.

  • Do you understand, now, why I concealed myself from you?

  • There was only a shaded reading-lamp alight, and it stood on a chair, shining right down on him; it made a patch of light on the floor, you understand.

  • Tear me from him--by force, do you understand, BY FORCE, and my lips will be sealed no longer.

  • If a messenger comes for me, he is to be intercepted, you understand.

  • Pray, what do you understand by a gentleman, Mons.

  • You understand what I mean--the funeral, you know.

  • What I am doing is for their interest, you understand.

  • Have you read it, and do you understand it?

  • You understand it was a Continental concern, that Trading society; but I have a lot of relations living on the Continent, because it's cheap and not so nasty as it looks, they say.

  • That's what I say; nobody here, you understand, here, can endanger your position.

  • His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once.

  • This simply because I had a notion it somehow would be of help to that Kurtz whom at the time I did not see--you understand.

  • Don't you understand, at last, that you can't beat the law?

  • He's not to speak to any one, you understand.

  • He had them insured, as you understand, and then inoculated them with the disease and claimed the insurance.

  • The fact is, your mother has asked me to say this, do you understand?

  • If you understand me so much better than I understand myself, for heaven's sake tell me exactly what to do!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
    habitual criminals; you and; you didn; you ever; you expect; you hear; you know anything about; you mean; you propose; you say; you shall have the; you two; young marster; young men; young poet; young sir; younger daughter; younger days; youngest brother; your company; your family; your friend; your ladyship; your love; your servant; your uncle