Use understood in a sentence
Sentences ending with understood
- The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
- That one thing was this: How is the last sentence of the prophecy to be understood? [5]
- All the author wants is to be understood. [4]
- Five languages in use in the house (including the sign-language-hardest-worked of them all) and yet with all this opulence of resource we do seem to have an uncommonly tough time making ourselves understood. [5]
- Is that thoroughly understood? [9]
- They are better understood. [9]
- Crozier saw and understood. [11]
- This must be understood. [10]
- But when I took an honest look at her face, I understood. [11]
- I beg you to send me the cup, and whatever price you put upon it, I, of course, shall pay, that is quite understood. [10]
Short sentences using understood
- Stephen understood Judge Whipple better. [9]
- The old peasant understood, however. [11]
- I hope you understood them. [9]
- Her gestures they understood perfectly. [10]
- I knew he understood me. [11]
- I certainly so understood it. [7]
- But soon I understood everything. [11]
- He understood the situation. [11]
- They understood each other well. [11]
- He understood and obeyed. [10]
Sentences containing understood two or more times
- She understood Isaac Worthington, now, as well as his son understood him. [9]
- Even those members who seemed to be on his side understood him in their own way with limitations and alterations he could not agree to, as what he always wanted most was to convey his thought to others just as he himself understood it. [2]
- Mr Vane had understood her about as well as he would have understood Mary, Queen of Scots, if he had been married to that lady. [9]
- Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in Rostov's soul (it seemed to Rostov that he understood everything), at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into Rostov's face. [2]
- Suddenly, by that strange power of sympathy which the unselfish possess, she understood the man, understood Austen's patience with him and affection for him. [9]
- There were sentences so involved and obscure that I was sure they would not be understood, if indeed he understood them himself. [6]
- When he saw Mack and heard the details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to play. [2]
- These people talked, between the acts, and I understood them, though I understood nothing that was uttered on the distant stage. [5]
- The two human beings who understood me, and whom I understood, are gone: I have some that love me yet, and whom I love, without expecting, or having a right to expect, that they shall perfectly understand me. [14]
- Here seemed to be a woman, nay, a soul, who understood him, understood him even better than Celia, the lifelong confidante. [4]
More example sentences with the word understood in them
- How thoroughly this young diplomat understood men! [10]
- I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
- I understood that you were a man of letters, and I hoped I might have the privilege of hearing from your own lips some account of your literary experiences. [6]
- If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that one of those extraordinary old men devoted to Serapis had been murdered instead of you. [10]
- During the long years he had been coming to Fairview, even before the new house was built, when Victoria was in pinafores, he had never understood her. [9]
- It must be written in German, because the receiver understood no other language. [10]
- These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
- The old man would scarcely have understood his motives, and it was better for both to part without seeing each other rather than in open strife. [10]
- The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
- Not that she would have understood the romance, but she would have comprehended me. [9]
- Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
- For me he would have put himself out not an inch had he not understood that my support came from those quarters. [9]
- Even such a worldling as Carmen understood this. [4]
- Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions, the people have never understood them as being any more than an indorsement of the compromises of 1850, and a release of our senators from voting for the Wilmot Proviso. [7]
- Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. [6]
- The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
- He did it with the vagueness of one in a dream, she thought, and she neither understood nor relished his uncomplimentary abstraction; so she straightway determined to give him some troublesome moments. [11]
- The French colonel with difficulty repressed a yawn, but was polite and evidently understood Balashev's importance. [2]
- We do not wish to be understood to be an enemy of the light traffic of human speech. [4]
- He did not wish to be understood as concurring in any intimation that they would refuse to receive such an appropriation of alternate sections of land because a condition enhancing the price of the reserved sections should be attached thereto. [7]
- I do not wish to be understood as casting the least reflection upon the high character and standing of the gentleman from Louisiana far from it. [5]
- I hope, and wish it to be understood, that there may be no allusion to unpleasant differences. [7]
- I hope it will be understood that it is from no disinclination to oblige anybody that I do not address you at greater length. [7]
- He understood his wife's line of thought. [2]
- True, his clever wife shared her husband's enthusiasm, and both understood how to attract the right advisers. [10]
- Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
- I understood exactly why he told me Boyd Madras's story: it was a warning. [11]
- The great man whom you loved understood life better than you. [10]
- One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another. [5]
- Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
- Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
- No doubt those who signed the document understood that the second clause limited the first, and that men are created equal only in respect to certain rights. [4]
- The great lady, who probably remembered having directed Heinz's attention to Eva at the dance, understood very clearly that they could not fail to attract each other. [10]
- I confess that while I sat there, in an audience so keenly in sympathy with the play--almost a part of it, one might say--I doubted if I understood your people as well as I thought I did when I had been here a week only. [4]
- With a throb which was an exquisite pain, she understood now the compassion in Austen's eyes, and she saw so simply and so clearly why he had not told her that her face burned with the shame of her demand. [9]
- The way in which she understood how to discover and bring out the best qualities of every visitor rendered her a very agreeable hostess. [10]
- And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
- Wasn't it understood, when that avenue was laid out, that it was to form part of the system of boulevards? [9]
- She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness. [2]
- I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. [7]
- And only now when I am living, or at least trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. [2]
- The high-priest understood what was passing in Septah's mind. [10]
- The smith understood what was passing in his mind, and said: "It is hard for you to go. [10]
- He alone understood what was meant by "scenery. [4]
- She now understood what the bishop's purpose was in calling on her. [10]
- The princess understood what Natasha had meant by the words: "two days ago this suddenly happened. [2]
- We, too, understood what it meant, and Don Luis knew him far better than we. [10]
- Paula now understood what hung over her. [10]
- When I understood what he wanted--when I saw that he was preparing a bed of laurels for us, you know, I said to myself: 'That is a monarch,' and I devoted myself to him! [2]
- She now understood what had happened to him two days before. [2]
- Ann likewise understood what had brought her sickly friend to her, and she whispered to me that albeit she was deeply thankful for the abundant goodness my aunt had ever shown her, yet could she never swerve from her well-considered purpose. [10]
- How warmly, with what convincing tones he understood how to give expression to his love to-day! [10]
- All their faces were now shining with that latent warmth of feeling Pierre had noticed the day before and had fully understood after his talk with Prince Andrew. [2]
- She understood him well--ah, terribly well! [11]
- Prexaspes only too well understood what that pressure meant, when given by a royal hand, and murmured: "Poor Bartja! [10]
- He understood singularly well the ways and tendencies of young people. [6]
- Oh, and how well he understood how to flatter, to describe my beauty! [10]
- They were likewise welcome because all pilots are tireless talkers, when gathered together, and as they talk only about the river they are always understood and are always interesting. [5]
- His glance never wavered, though he understood instantly what she meant. [11]
- The fullest stream--he was well aware of it--came from ancient pagan times, but from whatever sources the spring was fed, the Church had understood how to assimilate, preserve, and sanctify it. [10]
- Strangest of all was that William Wetherell understood and was not jealous of this thing: which leads us to believe that some essence of virility was lacking in him, some substance that makes the fighters and conquerors in this world. [9]
- A single glance was sufficient, for these good people so understood each other that Mrs. Merrill had only to raise her eyes to her husband's, and this she did shortly after the supper party began; while she was pouring the coffee, to be exact. [9]
- Barbara understood what was passing in his mind, and whispered compassionately to the doctor and her sister-in-law: "All his fair money to help the young lady. [10]
- That wild spirit was now a force which understood itself in a new if uncompleted way. [11]
- This, I think, was noticed by her, and enjoyed too, for she doubtless remembered her conversation with me, in which she had said that Clovelly thought he understood her perfectly. [11]
- But the Widow was not exactly mansion-house-bred, and so thought it necessary to give the Reverend Doctor a peculiar look which he understood at once as inviting his professional services. [6]
- This Delancy party was made up for reasons which are well understood, and it seemed to have been admirably well selected; and yet the moment it assembled it was evident that it could not be very brilliant or very enjoyable. [4]
- The love that was in him, new-born and but half understood, poured itself out in broken words like her own. [11]
- More than once was I tempted to blurt out the whole wretched business, for I well understood there was some deep game between him and Grafton. [9]
- He saw what was going on well enough, and understood it all perfectly well. [6]
- I understood he was awful mad at the way the thing started off, and wanted to give you a piece of his mind, when he got at you. [8]
- His adjutant Kaysarov was about to draw back the curtain of the window facing Kutuzov, but the latter moved his hand angrily and Kaysarov understood that his Serene Highness did not wish his face to be seen. [2]
- You heard his voice speaking to you sometimes; you understood what he meant to say to you? [11]
- She understood him very well, though pretending otherwise. [11]
- He knew that Valmond understood whereof he spoke. [11]
- There was no use--he understood the whole size of the disaster. [5]
- He understood the use of tools, and he now hastily selected such as he needed. [10]
- If Edith had urged him to go into Neighborhood Guild work, he could have understood that. [4]
- When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man. [2]
- March understood the unwillingness of the poor to leave the worst conditions in the city for comfort and plenty in the country when he reflected upon this dramatic incident, one of many no doubt which daily occur to entertain them in such streets. [8]
- Though not wholly understood, though opposed by a powerful minority of our citizens, it stirred the consciousness of a national mission to which our people are invariably ready to respond. [9]
- As I always understood, the Liberty men deprecated the annexation of Texas extremely; and this being so, why they should refuse to cast their votes [so] as to prevent it, even to me seemed wonderful. [7]
- When she clearly understood, now, what Fulkerson intended, she had no longer a doubt. [8]
- Upon terms well understood, I have laboured here. [11]
- Kitty saw and understood, but she did not hasten to reply, or to set things right. [11]
- He said he understood, business interruptions and all that, some men were well enough without, but as for him he never neglected the ordinances of religion. [5]
- I heard, and understood, and remembered the first part of the conversation which passed between them, and did not know it. [9]
- Still he'd have understood, and he'd have thought no harm. [11]
- And, if I understood you rightly, you do not even know where the singers are hiding? [10]
- When he had understood what was said to him, the German submitted and took his men elsewhere. [2]
- As though Carmen understood what was going on in his mind, she said: "Since you know everything, you can understand that I want a few words with M'sieu' George here alone. [11]
- What they both understood was that Dryfoos was endeavoring to get at Beaton through Conrad's memory; but with one this was its dedication to a purpose of self sacrifice, and with the other a vulgar and shameless use of it. [8]
- I never rightly understood until just now,--and that because I was always looking up, while you'd be looking down, and seeing nothing but the bent backs of them. [9]
- This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. [7]
- Probably the horse understood this method, for he did not notice the attack at all. [4]
- He had never understood the world, and had quarrelled with at all his life. [9]
- She had not understood the real nature of the former one. [10]
- I think Titian understood the look of a gentleman as well as anybody that ever lived. [6]
- She saw and understood the look in Maitresse Aimable's face, and instantly knew it to be the same that was in her own. [11]
- Now he also understood the doubts of Soteles and the King. [10]
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