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How to use the word Explain in a Sentence? Page #9

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My eye caught something in the window ; it was a book on magic, i knew I had to have it. I can't explain, even now, why that was. All that stood in the way was five marks -- for me a fortune, a fortune for any little boy in Germany in 1947.

Siegfried Fischbacher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The incident that you're referring to happened late last year, the district had received several parent complaints and followed up with an investigation.After the investigation, we believe that the material that was presented in the class was inappropriate.The Meyeholz [ sic ] principal has reached out to the parent community to explain our position, and we have communicated this determination to the teacher as well.For privacy reasons, I am unable to comment further on personnel issues.

Chris Rufo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Again, no excuses, but Anthony Fauci can explain why Anthony Fauci may not have gotten to the level Anthony Fauci want. Now, not to make excuses, we should have done better. So, let me make that clear, we should have done better, but I think we should wait until we get into maybe the second, or the third week in January, to see if we can now catch up with the original pace that was set.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are a lot of traditional Republicans who don't want to get on the Trump train. I can't explain what's going on in these state legislators except to say they don't embrace economic nationalism and they've turned their back on the President.

Peter Navarro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Would others like their grandparents or great-grandparents to be dug up and put on display? How do you explain to your children why their ancestors are on display and not other groups?

Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

I feel, in all fairness, you have to give the opportunity to the nominee to explain himself or herself.

Jack Reed

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The fact that we're getting so many reports suggesting that there's been a massive lockdown and crackdown and possible executions, tells me that something significant is up. And it's it doesn't bode well for not only North Korea's economy, but for the ability of many people to get by on a day-to-day basis in North Korea, this is a pretty serious situation for the North Korean leader, and this also may explain the relative quiet that we've seen from North Korea since the North Korea.Evans Revere presidential election. They may very well be inward looking right now and trying to figure out how to get through the next few months.

North Korea.Evans Revere

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People are suffering, and we can help, ive met so many beautiful people who have come to my office to explain this story, who are of good heart, who are courageous, who are fighters, and have created a network of solidarity trying to think more creatively about how to attack this disease.

Jeff Fortenberry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Please keep my family in your prayers at this time, losing my son at this point in our lives has devastated my family. There are no words to explain the pain.

Bobby Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are directly reaching out to the counties that are being indicated as not planning to count. We are also reaching out to all of the counties to explain why this matters, even if you can only do part to get started as early as humanly possible on Election Day matters, for every single county of any size. But certainly the more mail-in and absentee ballots they have, the more Election Day matters.

Kathy Boockvar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is a difficult decision that the government has made, but we fully support it, in recent weeks, we have all experienced that more and more farms in North Jutland have been infected, and no one has been able to explain the increase. Human health must come first.

Tage Pedersen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't feel like we should be leveraging our customers for financial aid while they are also suffering from the effects of this pandemic, we will now have to explain to our customers why we are charging them more, and even risk alienating them.

Matt Diaz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can't underestimate Justice Ginsburg role, justice Ginsburg had a way of writing Justice Ginsburg decisions so that they performed an active civic education. Justice Ginsburg was able to explain things in a way that people understood.

Myrna Perez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I hope you can explain to people what's going on. We have to get more support from the Jewish people for Israel.

The President

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I use a twist on the singer Prince to explain it, prince renamed himself as the artist formerly named as Prince. So I call it the artist formerly known as BPA. And there are 40 BPA replacements out there.

Leonardo Trasande

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed.

Robert Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sometimes you get the funny looks, but I'm totally open about everything, i'll say to them,' Do you have a problem with this ? Do you want to know why I'm doing this ? Because I'll explain it. I'm very talkative. I'll tell you all about my transplant.

Alin Gragossian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The likely real driver is( Pompeo's) speech on Thursday at the Nixon Library on China, it culminates a month of China speeches by National Security Advisor O'Brien, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Barr. Having something big to announce or explain will give the speech more' umph'.

James Green

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Trump Administration didn't even attempt to explain the basis for this senseless rule, which forces schools to choose between keeping their international students enrolled and protecting the health and safety of their campuses.

Maura Healey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Over the years, we have seen these anomalous weird things within caves that we couldnt quite explain rocks out of place, rocks stacked on top of each other, things that just didnt seem natural. But we didnt have a really good explanation.

Samuel Meacham

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Right as we passed all four, the driver turned and started advancing toward us, i can't explain how or why he thought it was a good idea, but that's what he decided to do. There were other vehicles farther down on Verner( Highway) and if they tried to claim they did it( to) get past us, they could have dispatched another officer( down the road).

Ethan Ketner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can't communicate the incommuunicable, we can't explain the inconceivable, life's fullness forever lies in wait about each one of us, and the lonely emptiness of existence is permanent, but a star deep in our heart lead us the way home.

Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

When I ask people in my constituency whether they are aware of Covid-19, I have to explain the global pandemic to them from the beginning, i have to explain to them what social distancing is and how to practice proper hand hygiene.

Htoot May

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If the minister is not making the decision to release the men into community detention because it is not in the public interest, then he needs to explain what that means, indefinite detention is wrong.

Rebecca Lim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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