5 sentences with 'explanations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word explanations and other words derived from it.
• « As she helps incompetent students change the explanations for their failures-from "I must be dumb" to "I didn't study hard enough"-their grades are improving. »
• « It was in philosophy that the Greeks broke most radically with supernatural explanations of life and thought and instead sought to establish moral and ethical codes, investigate political theory and understand human motivations, all in terms of the human mind and human capacities. »
• « The classic example of the latter was to take the idea that the Earth is the centre of the universe as a fact, and then try to force the observed motions of celestial bodies to make sense through elaborate explanations. »
• « The investigator had often encountered suspects - actually, culprits - who responded with complicated explanations, obviously thought out in advance, to the intended questions. This seemed to be the case as well. »