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Example sentences for: fathom

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His appeal to different constituencies isn't hard to fathom.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
And when I drowned I sank slowly and meant every fathom.
What they could not fathom was the British version of the same procedures: We've bronched him, tubed him, bagged him, and cathed him.
You see, my 9-year-old daughter read your "article" and could not fathom how (or why) a supposed intelligent adult could possibly say those things.