Sentence examples for explains to be from inspiring English sources

When Joshua starts selling crack, she explains, "To be a man meant to provide".

She and the ballplayer have been cohabiting long enough, she explains, to be considered legally married.

("I wanted to test my endurance," she explains, "to be a witness to the ritual of love").

Stacey Snider, the C.E.O. of DreamWorks Studios, explains, "To be a bad-boy Hemingway, you just need a computer, but film has real barriers to entry.

The boys talk constantly about sex, and the story runs on their efforts to get laid, but what they want, besides pleasure, is knowledge — as Seth explains, "to be good at sex by the time you get to college".

Trapp's diabetes has taken his sight, so he needs Alton, a self-consciously self-aware 17-year-old ("I have dark, 'intuitive' eyes and a 'warm' smile," he explains) to be his "card­turner," or pair of eyes at the bridge table.

There is much explaining to be done, by all parties.

Instead it is content to describe, rather than explain, to be voyeuristic, but not remotely discerning.

I think there's a lot of explaining to be done".

Eldridge Mews was close to being sold to a developer, he explained, to be converted into condos.

The conventionality is explained to be empty.