Sentence examples for I understood back from inspiring English sources

I wish I understood back then that I don't have to be grateful for being treated with the same respect as other people – and that I definitely needn't feel obliged to talk about my genitals to random people at parties".

I wish I understood back then that I don't have to be grateful for being treated with the same respect as other people and that I definitely didn't need to feel obliged to talk about my genitals to random people at parties".

"I knew that I was strong with people, and I understood back-office financial systems," said Merle Kailis, who in 1981 left her job as a consultant at the accounting firm KPMG to raise three children.

That was nice for a while, though what I thought I'd understood back on the bus about getting on another bus going cross-town seemed forgotten and I realized she planned to walk all the way back to our neighborhood four miles away.

I think I was too young to understand back then: I thought of time as a steadily growing tree that I hadn't yet started climbing.

But I couldn't understand, back that day in Cardiff, why there weren't legions cheering; why there had been frankly derisory media coverage; why people weren't more excited.

What I didn't understand back then is how movies differ from books.

I thought I understood this back in Sydney, but the reality of this is not understood until I find myself lying in the dirt, with a piece of string determining if I engage men with just a knife.

A truth I didn't fully understand back then.

Tell me, I forget, Show me, I remember, Involve me, I understand, Step back, I will act.

I understand that back in the day typing on a touchscreen was super annoying, since the auto-correct wasn't quite up to snuff.