Sentence examples for i understood to from inspiring English sources

"I understood to shut up," she said.

"I understood to an extent," she says.

The boy waved his hand and nodded, a gesture I understood to mean "All of them".

It was what I understood to be the purpose of my life.

Even then I understood — to give a kid a goldfish is to say: "You can be entrusted with this life, because its loss will mean very little".

She was referring, I understood, to another project, about ten blocks away, where the demolition of tenements had produced further crowding in a predominantly Negro neighborhood.

I understand to hit I have to work hard and be a little stronger.

They "contradict everything that I understand to be a trusting co-operation between friendly partners".

I understood what to eat and not to eat.

I understood "Moses" to be his uncle.

I understood this to be deferred salary.