Sentence examples for understandable few from inspiring English sources

Its rarity is understandable: few have the resources to mount the "staged oratorio" and the material is challenging.

Occasional inability to cope with the exacting parenting role she had chosen and had lauded would have been understandable – few mothers are unfamiliar with it.

Perhaps, then, it would be understandable if few seem terribly eager for a klatch about racism over a Frappuccino.

It's understandable that few home cooks make French stocks: after hours of cooking, the immediate rewards are a dirty pot and no dinner.

In hindsight, the default no phones position was understandable; a few horrific individual incidents of inappropriate use by young people brought home the risks.

Whatever the safety instructions, it is understandable that few people pay attention to them as most flights occur without mishap; the worst to happen on most flights is a turbulence-triggered bumpy ride.

Given the salary cap troubles that forced them to jettison talented players before the year, the Saints' record is understandable, but few teams have ever come from such a bleak start to make the playoffs.

Economies are complicated, ever-changing entities; it was understandable that few economists realized the extent to which short-term lending and securitization of assets such as subprime mortgages had recreated the old risks that deposit insurance and bank regulation were created to control.

That approach was understandable a few generations ago.

It was the worst terrorist act in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and it's understandable that few Americans feel much pity for the young man in the dock.

To ensure that the questionnaire was easily understandable, a few months before the onset of the study, a preliminary questionnaire was distributed to a small group of women (n = 68).