Sentence examples for grasp its meaning from inspiring English sources

If we are lucky we understand the project when it is built, but sometimes we still cannot grasp its meaning.

Stand down, arrogant mechanism; when a president reads a word in a formal setting, that chosen word is in, and it is up to all lexicographers and usagists to grasp its meaning and provenance.

This is a new word to me, but I grasp its meaning immediately.

Parochialism is universal: it sounds like a contradiction, but only if you don't fully grasp its meaning.

For I fear that those who see freedom solely as a political concept will never fully grasp its meaning.

(What child under 10 who has even heard the word ennui can grasp its meaning?) However, one reading is hardly enough to savor the rich philosophical nuances of DiCamillo's story.

If he tries to demur that some given piece fails to mount with the accelerating pace or arrive at the final intensity that he is in the habit of expecting in short stories, he is deterred by a nibbling suspicion that he may not have grasped its meaning and have it hit him with a sudden impact some moments after he has finished reading.

Using an expression with understanding requires grasping its meaning, and this involves not only being disposed to use it in a certain way, but also being disposed to 'take it' that the expression ought to be used the way one is disposed to use it.

He becomes an orphan, and sits with his wife and daughter reading King Lear by candlelight, finally grasping its meaning: "I'm no longer prepared to judge, everyone's to blame, everyone can be forgiven".

If he tries to demur that some given piece fails to mount with the accelerating pace or arrive at the final intensity that he is in the habit of expecting in short stories, he is deterred by a nibbling suspicion that he may not have grasped its meaning".

They spend too much effort in collecting information and not enough in grasping its meaning.