Example sentences for: understandable

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

  • Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).

  • The (quite understandable) nature of American politics is that support for a war falls when casualties rise.

  • Other, often dialectal aberrations such as in surance and in flu ence are also readily understandable.

  • In this context, it is understandable that nobody really cares about a visionary's track record.

  • Sometimes it seems to me that every language except my own is capable of rendering those mathematic subtleties, and my colleagues in math sometimes insist that the subtleties of math cannot be rendered into English, or at least English that is understandable by anyone unfamiliar with math.


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