Explaining can be categorized as a verb.
Adjective |
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| explaining - Of something that explains. | ||
Verb |
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| explain - make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" | ||
| explain - define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean" | ||
| explain - serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again" |
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| 1. | verb | Below are some emails to friends explaining a little more about this effort. | |
| 2. | verb | I will attach the letter explaining the benefit we are sponsoring. | |
| 3. | verb | Everyone was friendly from the receptionist to the surgeon herself, putting me at my ease and explaining the whole process, both initially and then as we went along. | |
| 4. | verb | I caught on to what the teacher was explaining. | |
| 5. | verb | The teacher didn't mind explaining the problem again. | |
| 6. | verb | You can't cop out on explaining a price increase of that size by blaming OPEC; that won't wash. | |
| 7. | verb | He had no difficulty explaining the mystery. | |
| 8. | verb | He had no difficulty in explaining the mystery. | |
| 9. | verb | Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't. | |
| 10. | verb | I tried explaining the algebra homework to him, but it just went in one ear and out the other. | |
| 11. | verb | Upon explaining plosives to his class, the linguistics teacher instantly became covered in spit. | |
| 12. | verb | Terrence has a hard time explaining his ideas to his coworkers, and his code is characteristically unreadable. | |
| 13. | verb | Tom has some explaining to do. | |
| 14. | verb | What's the teacher explaining? | |
| 15. | verb | Thank you for finally explaining to me why people take me for an idiot. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Below are some emails to friends explaining a little more about this effort. |
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| I will attach the letter explaining the benefit we are sponsoring. |
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| Everyone was friendly from the receptionist to the surgeon herself, putting me at my ease and explaining the whole process, both initially and then as we went along. |
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| I caught on to what the teacher was explaining. | |
| The teacher didn't mind explaining the problem again. | |
| You can't cop out on explaining a price increase of that size by blaming OPEC; that won't wash. | |
| He had no difficulty explaining the mystery. | |
| He had no difficulty in explaining the mystery. | |
| Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't. | |
| I tried explaining the algebra homework to him, but it just went in one ear and out the other. | |
| Upon explaining plosives to his class, the linguistics teacher instantly became covered in spit. | |
| Terrence has a hard time explaining his ideas to his coworkers, and his code is characteristically unreadable. | |
| Tom has some explaining to do. | |
| What's the teacher explaining? | |
| Thank you for finally explaining to me why people take me for an idiot. | |