Sentence for understanding | Use understanding in a sentence

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• Now they came to an understanding. (4)
• You trifle with my understanding. (14)
• I must come to an understanding with him. (4)
• To doubt it would upset my understanding. (10)
• Understanding and gratification came together. (4)
• Anne listened, but without quite understanding it. (4)
• You promised me, and I sold on that understanding. (8)
• We had early come to an understanding and a deadlock. (7)
• That was the idea printed simply on his understanding. (10)
• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. (4)
• He had answered that her insight did credit to her understanding. (12)
• In deference to her maidenly understanding, she gazed inquiringly. (10)
• My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. (4)
• Between our convictions and our feelings there is no good understanding. (1)
• His pride would debar him from understanding her desire to be released. (10)
• After their little talk, however, he had more understanding of his nephew. (8)
• We always want too much, and so end by seeing and understanding too little. (12)
• His understanding was good, and his education had given it solid improvement. (4)
• She had an understanding of art, a high and fine perception of its qualities. (12)
• She gazed into that unknown darkness full of presage and full of understanding. (12)
• She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. (4)
• There is no resisting the years, if we have a heart, and a common understanding. (10)
• She laughed and kept glancing at Corey to make sure that he was understanding her. (9)
• Then came a fresh set, that poised better on the slack-rope of his understanding. (10)
• She laid it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world. (10)
• The words of the Indian maiden seemed to stun him, and confound his understanding. (18)
• Christian looked at him, and their eyes met in a strange harmony and understanding. (12)
• He got near a thousand pounds out of my pocket the other day on that understanding. (10)
• It was not long before a good understanding took place between this lady and herself. (4)
• His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. (4)
• She had perforce of her radiant new healthfulness arrived at an exact understanding of him. (10)
• I have little doubt it was offered to L[ongfellow] with the understanding that he would decline. (14)
• Some understanding of how the other woman had been won to the leap with him, was drawing in about her. (10)
• Sometimes he is sure she is deficient in understanding, and at others that her temper only is in fault. (4)
• Careful understanding with the contractor should be arranged as to the method by which he will be paid. (17)
• Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart. (4)
• Unsettled in all else, his understanding clung to one conviction with the tenacity of a wrecked intellect. (1)
• She does, and for some strange reason beyond my capacity to fathom, you have not come to an understanding. (10)
• He wanted to be silent, to jeer, to go; he wanted to seem cold and unconscious of any knowledge or understanding. (12)
• Miltoun stared at her, for the first time understanding that she had a philosophy as deep and stubborn as his own. (8)
• Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you. (4)
• I think not; and to recognize an impossibility economizes time and is one of the virtues of a clear understanding. (10)
• In proof of his own better understanding of it, he remained in bed some time after the doctor said he might get up. (9)
• She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. (4)
• You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event. (4)
• By rights, she should have more understanding than to suspect the husband as guilty of designs done to death in romances. (10)
• In the life together of these two there had, from the very start, been a queer understanding as to who should decide what. (8)
• Before taking up the consideration of these matters it is well to get an understanding of the terms Monophony and Polyphony. (3)
• Edmund, on this appeal, had first to hear what was going on; but, on understanding the question, was at no loss for an answer. (4)
• Perhaps it was not necessary for them to speak of him; perhaps they understood him aright in their understanding of each other. (9)
• It was fascinating to see your creatures coming out with shapes of their very own; they did that without your understanding how. (8)
• Doubtless he was trained to have no understanding of a good to be derived by his communicating what he felt and getting sympathy. (22)
• They sink upon their nature, the unnamed, And sops of nourishment may get some few, In place of understanding, scourged and shamed. (10)
• It was not essential to the understanding which instantly established itself between them that they should have any language in common. (9)
• The capricious creature probably wanted a whipping to bring her to the understanding of the principle called mastery, which is in man. (10)
• He had remarked indeed that, whatever their expression, the brows, arched and rather wide apart, gave them a peculiar look of understanding. (8)
• There was some vague understanding between them that Bromfield Corey was to come back and go into business after a time, but he never did so. (9)
• She had no intimate understanding of the deadly wrestle of the conventional woman with her nature which she was undergoing below the surface. (10)
• She was no longer in her first youth; she had had her experiences and knew her world; she possessed a clear vision and a sharp understanding. (12)
• She collected her understanding, apparently; treating a conversational run of the tongue as a question to be pondered; and the horses paid for it. (10)
• Anyone who had seen the look, cold and furtive, thus interchanged, might have been pardoned for not appreciating the real understanding between them. (8)
• The Crawfords were more warm on the subject than Mr. Yates, from better understanding the family, and judging more clearly of the mischief that must ensue. (4)
• His piteous groans of self-accusation during the crisis haunted her, and made the conduct and nature of men a bewilderment to her still young understanding. (10)
• That which weighs heavily in youth, and commits us to desperate action, will be a trifle under older eyes, to blunter senses, a more enlightened understanding. (10)
• By general understanding, the experienced cruiser, or Admiral of the fleet, was expected to do the cooking, and he had made elaborate preparations for this duty. (20)
• I can picture to myself the cultivated Understanding, the Noble sentiments, and elegant Language which would have shone so conspicuous in the conversation of Mr Cleveland. (4)

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