Sentence examples for tries to explain a from inspiring English sources

He tries to explain a bit about the various dances.

It's complicated, Mr. Obama tries to explain — a response he acknowledges is accurate and unsatisfying.

It reminded me of the conversation in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," when Huck tries to explain a delay in a journey: "It warn't the grounding — that didn't keep us back but a little.

By Jay Haley The New Yorker, July 5 , 1947P. 53 An American, interviewing prisoners in Osaka, tries to explain a Virgil Partch cartoon to a former Japanese officer.

NUHA KHOURI'S hands dance as she speaks, slice the air when she is angry, twirl when she is exasperated, form boxes as she tries to explain a concept and gently come together on her lap when she concludes.

The comedian often tries to explain a detail of one of his cars, only to have it go right over the heads of his fellow collectors, said Meyer, who has known Leno since the 1970s.

To the layman, a theory is simply a guess or hypothesis that tries to explain an observed phenomenon (Trani 2004); a scientific theory, however, is an explanation of a natural phenomenon based on a large amount of scientific evidence.

Second, try to explain a simple economic concept, like supply and demand, to a physicist.

"I'm not trying to explain a woman by showing how she feels pleasure," he said.

Trying to explain a joke has long been considered a paradigm of pedantic futility.

"I tried to explain a procedure to a patient and I got very confused".