Sentence examples for needed explaining from inspiring English sources

It needed explaining.

"It's going to melt anyway," he explained, as if that were the thing that needed explaining.

Most critics, on the other hand, have thought that there was a good deal that needed explaining.

To Roosevelt radio meant the freedom to explain things, and thus the freedom to do things that needed explaining.

It was also because so much of what they referred to - whether war events, conditions in hospital or family gossip - needed explaining and filling out.

It was not the decision that needed explaining so much as the inordinate trust invested by ministers and the Olympics organisers in the private-security company, G4S.

This needs explaining.

That phrase in itself needs explaining.

"Greatness" in this case needs explaining.

It doesn't need explaining.

Jojo the Whale's nickname probably doesn't need explaining.