Sentence examples for understand it at the from inspiring English sources

"I didn't understand it at the time.

My parents, who were immigrants, didn't understand it at the time.

She was living in LA with her parents when she discovered her passion for film, even if she didn't quite understand it at the time.

I didn't quite understand it at the time, but I know now that the mother in Pink was not mentally well.

Though he clearly did not understand it at the time, Haig's poorly hidden presidential ambitions were scuppered in those early days with his lamentable performance after the assassination attempt on Reagan in March 1981.

My parents really had a thing for Leonard Cohen and I didn't understand it at the time and I really hated his voice, but I got a lot smarter, I think he is one of the best songwriters of our time.

On the whole, Scalia's record in criminal justice cases was consistent with his avowed philosophies of "textualism" and "originalism --broadly speaking, his belief that coriginalism --broadlyutoriginalism --broadly according to how itspeakings likely understood it at thistime it was drafted, should govern how cases are decided.

I'm Number Zero.' Meaning, as I understood it at the time — and I was not ready to dispute it — that his work was beyond measure and my work was pretty good".

The idea, as I understood it at the time, was that even though it would be a sin to pick up a pretty girl at the church dance and drive her to the dark abandoned chicken farm known as "the coop" where we Mormon kids held our makeout sessions, I should nevertheless feel grateful for the fact that I desperately desired to do so.

I didn't look back through the side mirror so I didn't see what he did next, and it wasn't until I was some miles farther down the road that I realized that he hadn't wanted to talk about himself at all, but was just giving me something back, and I felt sorry not to have understood it at the time, but glad, too, because, out on the road, in the cold, any gift is better than nothing.

This is the part of the article where I should explain what "plasmonics" means, but even though he described it to me over lunch at the University of Southern California a couple of weeks ago, and even though I felt I really kinda almost understood it at the time, I can now describe plasmonics as easily as I can juggle otters.