Sentence examples for could not have understood from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Portham said the jury could not have understood how frightened his friend had been.

Maybe that is what Wells means – without the theory, we could not have understood the implications of the bump, or connected it to the origin of particle masses.

Mrs. Patrick, 31, said that Aiden was just learning how to cross the street and that he could not have understood that the beach was just as dangerous.

Without cohabiting alongside Ursula these 35 years, I could not have understood the very concept of sainthood, and could not have found "Saints Have Mothers," a novella in my new book, "Local Souls".

But there were disputes over details including the number of dead, the relative positions of the convoys, and how the troops could not have understood that the vehicle was a passenger bus.

"It gave us a valuable insight into a completely different culture and lifestyle to our own, which we simply could not have understood here in England," says Lancaster student Vidushi Golash.

"I couldn't have understood his thesis," Professor Fischer said.

I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.

The reader at first objects to the whole idea — no, you couldn't have understood Gettysburg by aesthetic empathy.

Paul Weller, who wrote the song, was pretty incredulous to hear this, and claimed you couldn't have understood the lyrics.

The reader at first objects to the whole idea no, you couldn't have understood Gettysburg by aesthetic empathy.