Sentence examples for understood the text from inspiring English sources

Textualists proceed "on the basis of how a reasonable reader, fully competent in the language, would have understood the text at the time it was issued".

Then again, perhaps I was better off, since I also wished I hadn't understood the text that male and female voices recited dramatically before the start of almost every dance number.

Lothar Köhler, the director of the Bavarian investigations office, said he understood the text to be a farewell letter to the teenager's father, in which he complained about "nonbelievers".

Then when Django came around, I understood the text.

The N-word was said 100 times, but I understood the text — that's the way it was back in that time.

After the scanning session, the two groups of participants were submitted to a 10 items questionnaire so as to verify they understood the text.

How did they help you understand the text?

"They don't understand the text and how it affects government or history.

You don't have to understand the text word by word.

"Modern-day Maya can recognise some words, but they can't understand the text," Stuart said.

Looking at this configuration, we would still not be able to understand the text.