Sentence examples for put to explain from inspiring English sources

We would still be hard put to explain why.

They may be hard put to explain why, exactly, he scares them, but he does.

The attacks on Viereck coincided with the movement's emergence as a powerful cultural force — a development that even conservatives were hard put to explain.

Yet when asked to justify this level of attention and, for example, the flying of flags at half-mast on government buildings, Downing Street was hard put to explain its stance.

Aron would have been hard put to explain Yeltsin's decision to install the former K.G.B. policeman Vladimir Putin as his successor and give Putin carte blanche to unleash a genocidal war in Chechnya.

Scientists have been hard put to explain how the two species differ so much in body and behavior when they seem to have an almost equivalent set of genes.

In the field of devout Tintinologists, much effort has been put to explaining this "lapse" away.

I'm hard-put to explain how stunned I felt when I read your column about schadenfreude at The New York Times when it comes to other papers' problems, while The Times seldom mentions its own in print.

An account is a set of proposed explanations and hypotheses that could be put forth to explain all of the observed data at hand.

Several theories have been put forward to explain these observations.

Many arguments have been put forward to explain it.