Example Sentences

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I was good at understanding it, all the different subjects that they were explaining and teaching.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

“The head honchos at Marvel ... were explaining to me the character and who she’s going to be dealing with in this universe and that universe, and I’m like listening, listening,” Louis-Dreyfus recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

How would you counter that perspective if you were explaining it to a layperson who may be convinced by that argument?

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2022

During the World Cup, England would often put him up to brighten up rainy day press conferences when his less creative teammates were explaining they were going to take each game as it came.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2019

Her face tightened into a expression of forced patience, as if she were explaining something to a thick-headed child.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs