Sentence examples for an imperfect grasp from inspiring English sources

They often have an imperfect grasp of nutritional science.

Junie's diction is characterized by an imperfect grasp of English grammar: she favors superlatives like "bestest" and "funnest" and past tenses like "runned" and "thinked".

He is a native French speaker and has an imperfect grasp of English, which is the language spoken by the majority of Canadians.

She appears in the new show with an imperfect grasp of English ("Monday! Tuesday! January!") and a radical business proposal (pizzas in nightclubs) for which she is seeking an investment of £16.

Their sketches revisit familiar ideas, as with faux-70s cop show Rocket and Honk, a TV pitch by three young posh women with an imperfect grasp of both policing and the 1970s (or is it 1870s?).

In 2009 this work was published as The Devil's Children, in which Loretta suggested that children have an imperfect grasp of the nature of death until well into adolescence, and so cannot form an intent to murder in the same sense as an adult.

Administration officials have said that they are working to avoid this problem, but the danger remains because the federal government thus far seems to have a woefully imperfect grasp on the broad range of higher education providers and types of students attending.

These shadows become a metaphor for both the imperfect grasp of memory and the mutation of autobiography - emotional "fragments" - into fiction.

Mary McCarthy wrote an especially caustic notice for The New Republic, finding fault with the novel's anachronisms and imperfect grasp of American life.

It included such gems as "The Person with the Imperfect Grasp of Obscurity": "These are all completely obscure picks nobody has ever heard of.

But within a year, Pete Rouse, his chief of staff, urged him quietly to lay plans for a presidential run in 2008, just in case "a perfect storm" gave him an opening.One part of the perfect storm that blew Mr Obama into the White House was the financial panic that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and cruelly exposed John McCain's imperfect grasp of economics.