Sentence examples for grasped to understand from inspiring English sources

At that young age, they grasped to understand but could not.

Perhaps it's also within our grasp to understand the causes of poverty and the violence inherent in our makeup, but do we really want to?

Unlike organs such as the heart or lungs, scientists are still grasping to understand many fundamental aspects of how the brain works.

That's what brings tears to our eyes – a longing for the past and a grasping to understand the future.

Instead, I spent that time alone in my room sitting on my bed, a single lamp on, trying to grasp, trying to understand.

But even he was grasping for ways to understand fully the reality of his team's worst loss of the season.

He made me feel like one of the students, with too feeble a grasp of English to understand what he was saying about me, but suspecting that it was contemptuous.

They will either need to hope that their texting buddies have sufficient grasp of semiotics to understand the water pistol as a mind-bending signifier, or use actual words to spell out their intentions: "I want 2 exercise my 2nd amendment rights on u".

He further questioned whether illegal immigrants have the "sophisticated grasp of English" required to understand the message at a distance.

Another advantage for Mr. Gore is that no one questions his competence to make decisions and to grasp issues -- and to understand how to navigate the often befuddling world of government and politics in Washington.

The book's presupposition is that there are significant, namable, untranslatable differences between tongues, so that, say, "history" in English, histoire in French, and Geschichte in German have very different boundaries that we need to grasp if we are to understand the texts in which the words occur.