Sentence examples for understand at first from inspiring English sources
I didn't understand at first.
I didn't understand at first why it was happening and who was behind it.
I didn't understand at first and thought she'd been taken to hospital.
It's slightly difficult to understand at first, but there are a few tricks that can help flatten the learning curve.
Though I liked Lapka, I didn't understand at first why he was coming with us that morning.
The boy didn't understand at first, but doesn't that show the value of parents reading to their children.
Although I was still welcomed as an openly gay foreigner, I wanted to really understand at first-hand what difference the legislation had made to Russian LGBT in their own country.
Meaning it can't really be understood at first.
What no one understood at first was how much his excesses would appeal to voters – not all of them poor white people whose jobs, prospects and traditions have been attacked or destroyed – who feel marginalised or threatened.
Meanwhile, over at PSFK.com ("Your go-to source for new ideas"), we're treated to an explanation of how to communicate with Millennials: "Experiences designed for them should be intuitive and easily understood at first exposure (and sight).
The closeness of a possibility as it figures in (ii) is to be understood, at first pass, in terms of what we can reasonably rely on: a possibility is a distant one just in case we can reasonably rely on it not obtaining; otherwise it is a close one (Peacocke 1999, 310).
