Sentence examples for hardly understands from inspiring English sources

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At first, she hardly understands poetry.

Jadranka is more restless, driven by demons she hardly understands.

Nicholson is a prisoner now, yet he tells the warm evening air, and the Japanese commandant who hardly understands him, that he's given the army 28 years.

At some stage, someone with the skills and experience sadly lacking in Lewis and perhaps with fine liberal credentials will have to join the high Tories of the Johnson administration to stop it floundering for the next four years in territory which becomes ever more murderous and on ground that it hardly understands.

It's a dangerous, dramatic story, told with sombre reticence from the point of view of an inarticulate character no more able to analyse the forces that manipulate him than the clever 16-year-old boy (in "The Pearl Fishers"), at an Irish Catholic school in the 60s, being "groomed" by the priests in ways he hardly understands.

We all know about the arrival of convicts, but, as ever, Thornhill hardly understands the historical significance of the story; Grenville, as narrator, even has to intervene to tell us about the establishment of Sydney as a destination of transport ships.

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You hardly understand.

This he could hardly understand.

I HARDLY understood it myself.

I can hardly understand that at all.

"I could hardly understand anything the teacher said," he said.

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