Sentence examples for we later understood from inspiring English sources

These – we later understood – were popular purchases for those who chose to read behind the relative anonymity of a screen.

We had stopped for lunch at a roadside campsite where the bathroom was at the back of a tent furnished with a bed and a bedside table and a lamp a very nice tent, we later understood.

"And where the church has been silent in previous generations and cultures, or contributed to the separation of families, we have later understood our complicity and at our best have engaged in acts of repentance".

Cozens, like the Surrealists a century and a half later, understood that ambiguity gave rise to individuality.

He said he later understood that Mr. Kleinman's trip to Colorado with a "prosecutor went according to plan, except that Yousef evidently reneged on his offer".

I was put off by the metaphor at first but later understood what they meant — that the enemy penetrated what they had thought of as a safe space.

The American railroad came into existence because incomplete geographic knowledge caused the first British colonists to plant early entrepôts in what were later understood to be unfavourable locations.

Equally convincing is his well-documented assertion that Islam, at its origins, was rather different from the religion later understood by either its practitioners or by non-Muslims.

In addition, a mysterious poem of 14 golden characters was seen on the leaves a prophecy that was only later understood when the uncle was driven into exile.

In the poem subtitled Poem on the Eve of May 35th, a five-year-old watches smudgy TV footage, later understood to be news of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

I only later understood that Ice Cube, too, was echoing a tradition, doing for South Central what Baraka's poem "Black People!," written amid the fire and chaos of the 1967 Newark riots, had done for New Jersey.