Example Sentences

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“These exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves,” he wrote, “and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us.”

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

Tarjei Vesaas’s unsettling and lovely novel The Ice Palace, translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan, tells the story of an intense, half-understood bond between Siss and Unn, two schoolgirls.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019

They’re driven by a half-understood longing for products that can no longer fulfill their bottomless hunger.

From The Verge • Dec. 5, 2018

Of course, they’ll be made up of many things, including questions, and images, and gestures, because we live in a world of too many things and half-understood selves.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2018

De Maricourt and della Porta were crucial sources for Gilbert: we can tell that he repeated their experiments with care, which is how he knew that della Porta was copying from a half-understood source.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton