Example sentences for: explained

How can you use “explained” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The only "litmus test," explained his adviser Robert Shrum, was the banal "constitutional one, civilian control of the military."

  • When I explained this to these two ladies, they both shook their heads--like they know better than my therapist.

  • Secretary Rumsfeld later explained that at the time, he had been considering either one of them, or perhaps someone else, as the responsible party.

  • Anti-European militants, American experts, and speculators of all kinds had explained for years that the project was impossible.

  • The ancient Chinese emperor Fei-ti, Ridley explained, had a harem of 10,000 virgins and "was expected to make love to two a day, and was trained in special techniques to make sure that he could manage this."


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