UNDERSTAND in a Sentence

Learn UNDERSTAND 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.
401 example sentences for UNDERSTAND, such as:
1. No one can understand how I really feel.
2. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
3. A wise man hears one word and understand two.
4. That is not good language which all understand not.
5. Nature, too, is foolery in the sense you understand it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of UNDERSTAND
understand
 v.  know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
 v.  be understanding of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Madam," he said, "either you are declining to understand what I say or you are talking for the mere sake of talking.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Once upon a time I believed you to be a good fellow, but now I see that you don't understand civility.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  "I cannot understand it," said Chichikov to himself.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
4  Consequently things resulted, not in master and men failing to understand one another, but in their not singing together, in their not producing the very same note.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
5  Pardon me," went on his interlocutor, "but I do not quite understand you.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
6  "I quite understand," Chichikov thought to himself.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  I, too, cannot understand," remarked Chichikov, "how a man of your appearance can find things wearisome.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  Yes, but, pardon me, I still fail to understand why you should find life wearisome.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
9  "Yet I cannot understand WHY he should fall asleep and grow mouldy in that fashion," said Platon.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
10  I will send corn to the localities where famine is worst," said Murazov, "for I understand that sort of work better than do the tchinovniks, and will personally see to the needs of each person.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  I make it to those of you who understand wherein lies nobility of thought.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  'The curtains here,' he explained, seeing she did not understand him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Nature, too, is foolery in the sense you understand it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  And he looked round, as though trying to understand how it was possible to have no feeling for nature.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  The following means, among others, is in great vogue, 'is quite a favourite,' as the English say; a high official suddenly ceases to understand the simplest words, assuming total deafness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1  Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
2  We hope you will understand our reason for this action.
3  I've been struggling to understand this article all afternoon.
4  It was a mark of his unfamiliarity with Hollywood that he didn't understand that an agent was paid out of his client's share.
5  I'm on the right track and I think in the final analysis people will understand that.
6  There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
7  A wise man hears one word and understand two.
8  That is not good language which all understand not.
9  To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
10  If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
11  I don't understand what you're trying to say.
12  No one can understand how I really feel.
13  Not all doctors truly understand the reproductive cycle.
14  If you understand the value of love and love you have given me I have to wait for the future.
15  I don't understand this book--I can see no sense in it.