Sentence examples for understands at the time from inspiring English sources

Hunter S Thompson once said: History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time– and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

I didn't understand at the time.

"My English couldn't be understood at the time".

This, too, was not fully understood at the time.

It was understood at the time that he died in the gunfight.

This combination made the bridge highly vulnerable to aerodynamic forces, insufficiently understood at the time.

I probably did not understand at the time what that really meant.

Out of tune — or out of anything I understood at the time as "tune".

I didn't understand at the time what he meant, but it did.

No one understood at the time that he meant to avoid nation-building at home, too.

I didn't understand at the time, but I do now".