Sentence examples for understood it for from inspiring English sources

But it isn't moviegoing as we have understood it for most of history.

He understood it for what it was — a virus, not a sign that he had sinned.

Her speech is endearingly punctuated with caveats – "this is so difficult", "what do I want to say?", "I understood it for a moment then, but, no, it's gone now" – and I hear myself attempting to finish her sentences (always wrongly) gamely willing her on, just as I recall doing watching her on stage all those years ago.

"The phrase mixed emotions, I think I understood it for the first time, because there was a period where I didn't like him".

"I haven't understood it for four years being here, going on to my fifth year, what is wrong with just starting to vote on amendments?" said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis).

Their tactics use the threat of litigation, with the hope that supremacist judges will accept their reinterpretation of the First Amendment, as Americans have understood it for over two centuries.

I've been trying to understand it for nearly thirty years, and its politics, history and culture have many twists and turns that are still opaque to me.

"Sometime you have to turn a concept or a structure on its head or inside out to better understand it for yourself," explains Leek.

"He wants to understand it for himself".

I don't understand it for the life of me.

"They didn't understand it for a long time," Mr. Noever said.