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US
/ɪksˈpɫeɪn/
]
[ UK /ɛksplˈeɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɛksplˈeɪn/ ]
VERB
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serve as a reason or cause or justification of
Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work
Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again -
define
The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean -
make plain and comprehensible
He explained the laws of physics to his students
How To Use explain In A Sentence
- To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
- Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
- We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me. How long can Swaziland resist reform?
- Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
- ‘In big companies, there can be a lot of layers that inhibit the creative process,’ she says, explaining her decision to strike out on her own.
- The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
- A common goal of population genetic investigations is to explain the fate of genetic polymorphism within a species.
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
- She took a day off of classes to attend the event because she wants to help her mom, the current owner of Kchelly's Beauty Center in Irvington, N.J. "She's thinking of handing [the business] to me," explains Ms. Darden, who is currently a manager at the salon and beauty-supply store. Need Advice? We'll Give You 30 Minutes
- Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
