He looked at her for a moment, trying to fathom her meaning.
Do they fathom the meaning of liberty?
The recording deserves to be heard by any open-minded person trying to fathom its meaning to the fullest.
Jack, who has tried to fathom the meaning of the lyrics of "Rivers of Babylon" — "So let the words of our mouths / and the meditations of our hearts / be acceptable in thy sight" — now lives them.
For audiences and critics alike, trying to fathom the meaning of Ronald Duncan's masque and anti-masque in verse called This Way to the Tomb! (which the critic James Agate sneeringly retitled Turn Right for the Crematorium) was no joke.
If you wanted to know why people do the things they do, understand the mind of God, or even fathom the meaning of it all, scientists were supposed to be able to tell you.
Jack, who has tried to fathom the meaning of the lyrics of "Rivers of Babylon"—"So let the words of our mouths / and the meditations of our hearts / be acceptable in thy sight"—now lives them.
For the fall semester, I enroll as a freshman at St . Johns College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Md., where I sit around a seminar table with 17 teenagers and two tutors, reading and discussing Homer, Plato, Aeschylus and Herodotus, trying to fathom the meaning of life.
Wilson regretted the loss of his precious objects, the things that had allowed him to cure the sick: the black-and-white cloth he wore while contacting the spirit world; the bones and stones he customarily threw on a mat to fathom the meaning of events; the sheep fat he burned to chase away evil spirits; his beads and impala horns; his potions, herbs, roots, bark and snuff.
No one can easily fathom the meaning of "deep time".
The shot and its echo were heard on the other side, at the Hindustani camp, but they could not fathom its meaning.
