UNDERSTANDING in a Sentence

Learn UNDERSTANDING 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 UNDERSTANDING, such as:
1. The problem is beyond my understanding.
2. Love means understanding, not agreement.
3. Our understanding of cancer remains imperfect.
4. The existence of God is beyond human understanding.
5. But here I'm going to stand till I'm understanding you.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of UNDERSTANDING
understanding
 n.  an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
 n.  the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But here I'm going to stand till I'm understanding you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  You'd be happier if he did, for at least you'd be understanding that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But he's queer in other ways, and there's no understanding him at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He was looking at Charles, and there was understanding in his face and a little pity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She sighed as she carefully tied the ribbon about the packet, wondering for the thousandth time just what it was in Ashley that eluded her understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  When regimental officers, understanding the situation, saw a hard fight ahead, they wrote these men, telling them to rejoin their companies and no questions would be asked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Melanie's white face broke into a sweet understanding smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  There were bright tears on Melanie's lashes and understanding in her eyes, and before them, Cathleen's lips curved into the crooked smile of a brave child who tries not to cry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  Will was pleasant to talk to because he had so little to say and yet was so understanding a listener.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Ellen was dead and perhaps death gave an understanding of all things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  They all knew that for years Frank Kennedy had had an "understanding" with Suellen O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  He felt there was something unbecoming about a woman understanding fractions and business matters and he believed that, should a woman be so unfortunate as to have such unladylike comprehension, she should pretend not to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  During those days of anxiety and struggle there was only one dependable, understanding person in her world, and that person was Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  "Oh, well, I promise," and then she looked at him with a new understanding and some amazement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1  I absolutely don't say I love you, this is between us the tacit understanding.
2  Love means understanding, not agreement.
3  There is a consensus among teachers that children should have a broad understanding of the world.
4  Health and understanding are the two great blessing of life.
5  She doesn't have any understanding of politics/human nature/what it takes to be a good manager.
6  This argument aimed at the understanding rather than the emotions.
7  He pleaded with his parents for a more understanding attitude.
8  They have to have a basic understanding of computers in order to use the advanced technology.
9  The bottom line, he said, is that altruism may rely on a basic understanding that others hae motiations and actions that may be similar to our own.
10  A deep mutual respect and understanding developed between them.
11  The problem is beyond my understanding.
12  The existence of God is beyond human understanding.
13  Our understanding of cancer remains imperfect.
14  The greatest challenge for the Americans is understanding the mindset of Eastern Europeans.
15  He has trouble understanding that other people judge him by his conduct.