Example Sentences

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“I think we drove much more cost into the project than people perhaps were understanding at the time,” he says.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

Teran described the crowds as “incredibly calm” and said that people were understanding even though some were frustrated about waiting in line or not getting into the hearing.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Can you tell me how you understood how people were understanding Clover and Jotter as women in botany, a field that is thought of as women galavanting in gardens collecting flower pressings.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

They were understanding to let it kind of happen or at least get the wheels turning on it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2021

Although most of the kids at school were understanding, some of them also had trouble with it.

From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper