How to Use comprehend in a Sentence

comprehend

verb

• Bystanders, unable to comprehend it, unable to believe it, gasped.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Slaughter on such a scale must have been well-nigh impossible to comprehend or assimilate.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
• The extended family who lived there were struggling to comprehend the ways their lives had been upended and those of their relatives had been lost.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The world is yet to comprehend what happened, and Steve Rogers is no longer Captain America.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Mar. 2021
• My brain, on some level, could recognize what I was being told was useful information, but my heart couldn't comprehend any of it.
  — Nikaline McCarley, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• DiPaola’s videos being easy to comprehend is no accident.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2021
• The otherwise highly competent, trusted therapist couldn’t comprehend that climate change was the sole cause of her distress.
  — Isobel Whitcomb, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
• Which is why the news last week that thousands of protesters were marching in France to demand the reopening of theaters there seemed so difficult to comprehend here.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• Planet Reimagined finds ways to turn that data into meaningful steps that people can both comprehend and actually follow through on.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
• That day felt like one of the most amazing experiences of just trying to really comprehend what just happened to me from an individual perspective and even from a career level.
  — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Most people cannot comprehend the coming changes or imagine how prolonged depopulation will recast societies, economies, and power politics.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
• Blair said some other residents with dementia couldn’t comprehend why family members and visitors disappeared.
  — al, 19 Mar. 2021
• The futile attempts to comprehend this heinous act, and the hours of hugs and tears, soon gave way to anger.
  — Ted Deutch, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Death is a scary aspect of life that is hard to comprehend.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
• But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Rivera said the rule shouldn’t be hard for players to comprehend.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• Most of all, trees seem to grow on a timescale humans can comprehend.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• For them, the earthquake was just the latest tragedy — one that many are still too shocked to comprehend.
  — Mehmet Guzel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• But the magnitude of the attacks can still be a lot for younger minds to comprehend in a few lessons.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
• The devastation of the fire that ripped through West Maui on Aug. 8 is hard to comprehend.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2023
• The numbers coming out of Gaza can be hard to comprehend.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• These days David is growing up fast — faster than the singer can quite comprehend.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• These are the five steps people need to hear and comprehend for an idea to make sense and take action on your idea.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The shooting seemed doubly hard to comprehend for many in Ukraine.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 25 May 2022
• The battle shows that some managers can’t comprehend that the world has changed along with the mindset of workers.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• Most people just could not comprehend my point of view.
  — Jodi Cilley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Okposo, now 36, at the time couldn’t comprehend the emotions that went through winning the Stanley Cup.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024
• There is no way to fully comprehend the toll of the past two years without looking closer at some of the losses.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• With all these new tools, humans could perceive much more than the eye could behold, more than the mind could comprehend.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Biden said people on the East Coast struggle to comprehend the scale of the destruction, which rivals the size of New Jersey.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024