EXPLAIN in a Sentence
Learn EXPLAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
331 example sentences for EXPLAIN, such as:
1. First, I'll explain the rules of the game.
2. She saw his frown and hastened to explain.
3. You'd better go and explain to the teacher.
4. He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
5. She began to explain her plan of action to the group.
2. She saw his frown and hastened to explain.
3. You'd better go and explain to the teacher.
4. He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
5. She began to explain her plan of action to the group.
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Meanings and Examples of EXPLAIN
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explain
v. serve as a reason or cause or justification of
v. make plain and comprehensible
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I'll--I'll help you explain how you did it for the hospital.
2 And, my dear, I would not have alarmed you by saying these things, were it not that I had to explain why I ask you to look after Melanie.
3 Go to Mrs. Elsing's, and explain everything very carefully and tell her to please come up here.
4 She would have to explain to her just why Mrs. Meade couldn't come and the knowledge that Phil Meade was badly wounded might upset her.
5 Prissy went off at a trot, the letter gripped in her hand, and Scarlett went back upstairs, trying to think of some plausible lie to explain Mrs. Elsing's failure to appear.
6 Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her.
7 She never wrote him and naturally he could not write her and explain.
8 Frank went on to explain in his patient manner, but the idea that ballots could cure the trouble was too complicated for her to follow.
9 You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater.
10 "If you were not so drunk and insulting, I would explain everything," said Scarlett, recovering some dignity.
11 But at her first tumbled-out words: "Melly, I must explain about the other day--" Melanie had imperiously stopped her.
12 If you can manage to listen to me for a few minutes without interrupting, I can explain what I mean.
13 She broke off, laughing, to explain that she had come up to town from Tuxedo, on her way to the Gus Trenors' at Bellomont, and had missed the three-fifteen train to Rhinebeck.
14 He found Gerty as he had left her, simple, undemanding and devoted, but with a quickened intelligence of the heart which he recognized without seeking to explain it.
15 But it was too much trouble to explain to Kennicott's kindly stubbornness that she was a practical housekeeper as well as a flighty playmate.
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1 She began to explain her plan of action to the group.
2 If there's anything you don't understand, I'll be happy to explain.
3 They shouted him down when he tried to explain why Zaire needed an interim government.
4 The difficulties women encounter with their doctors partly explain why so many of us are looking to alternative therapies.
5 A more extreme version would be to compare and explain budget and actuals only for an organization as a whole.
6 The minister was called to court to explain his conduct.
7 To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
8 He outlined his plans and then proceeded to explain them in more detail.
9 The difference in the treatment they receive is hard to explain away.
10 There's a big difference between understanding something and being able to explain it to others.
11 This chapter will examine a range of theories which attempt to explain such behaviour.
12 She saw his frown and hastened to explain.
13 He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
14 You'd better go and explain to the teacher.
15 First, I'll explain the rules of the game.