We found over 1000 examples of how to use understand in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | The words in our dictionary are split into four categories: those which we understand and we use, those which we understand but don't use, those which we don't understand and don't use and finally those which we don't understand and still use. | |
| 2. | Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world. | |
| 3. | If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. | |
| 4. | In fact history does not belong to us but rather we to it. Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society, and state in which we live. | |
| 5. | When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf. | |
| 6. | To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion. | |
| 7. | I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. | |
| 8. | But you cannot understand. How could you understand what it is to feel old? | |
| 9. | Tom and Mary did not even understand the deeper meaning of the sentence they were in, thinking to themselves that it must be really hard to understand the meaning of sentences they were not in. | |
| 10. | Through what way could they understand each other? -They could understand each other through a common language. | |
| 11. | If you want to understand yourself, just look how the others carry on. If you want to understand the others, look into your own heart. | |
| 12. | Even I can understand this sentence. It's very easy to understand. | |
| 13. | "Do you understand?" "I don't understand at all." | |
| 14. | "Okay, Adrian, pitting, pitting." "I really don't understand this drivethrough. I mean, the backmarker was holding me up, holding everyone up, and I get a drivethrough. Tell the FIA I really don't understand that." "Yes, we think it's very harsh and we will discuss it further with the FIA." | |
| 15. | Edward Bolles, author of “Remembering and Forgetting,” puts it best: “We remember what we understand; we understand only what we pay attention to; we pay attention to what we want.” | |
| 16. | One word to those who understand it is worth more than a whole speech to those who do not understand it. | |
| 17. | In math class I sometimes don't even understand what exactly I don't understand. | |
| 18. | There are two kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't understand binary. | |
| 19. | I can understand most of what they say, but I don't understand the slang they use (in their speech). | |
| 20. | "I don't understand." "It's better you don't understand." | |
| 21. | When a person doesn't understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn't understand. | |
| 22. | I don't understand how you can understand that language. | |
| 23. | I understand your arguments. I disagree with them, but I understand them. | |
| 24. | Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. | |
| 25. | Since Tom doesn't understand French, we speak French when we don't want him to understand what we're talking about. |