Sentence examples for were given to understand from inspiring English sources

Nothing, we were given to understand by some speakers, would ever be the same again.

Some were given to understand that they were writing for the Observer.

They were given to understand that it was better to come back from an assignment empty-handed than with a story contrived to justify the journey.

As ever, informality ruled: this, you were given to understand, was an ordinary person first, the politician in her coming a distant second.

Now the logic was inverted: supporting the troops, we were given to understand, meant that you had to support the war.

The tots belong to faculty members who, when the leased the apartments were given to understand that there were not to be any children, but found Nature even more compelling that Harvard.

I was given to understand that this will never happen.

Good story, of course, but I am given to understand, not true.

We are given to understand that certain ex-CIA types are not happy with developments.

'I was given to understand that you required a valet.' " Bertie says he would have preferred a mortician.

(The self-care part of the scene, we're given to understand from the caption, is the spirallized potato).