How to Use comprehensible in a Sentence

comprehensible

adjective

• And the premise, which is barely comprehensible at the best of times, just wafts in and out of the play as suits the song choice.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2017
• The depth of the loss Kanye felt since Donda’s death in 2007 is for a moment made comprehensible.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2022
• And then there is the other loss, less comprehensible, less tangible still — the loss of a year in our lives.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
• Less comprehensible are the motives of people who do the work of the state without the pretense of getting paid for it.
  — Ava Kofman, New Republic, 10 May 2017
• The second half is slowed to a more comprehensible pace.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2021
• Still, none of this makes Cunanan comprehensible or, when all is said and done, pitiable.
  — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• And within it, the number of melodies is in a more comprehensible part of finitude.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2020
• Because the chat was filled with comprehensible English words and the emote was a direct response to the actions of the streamer.
  — John Alexander, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• To put it another way, midlife reckonings revise the events of the past to make the present comprehensible.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Williams lost 37 years of his life for reasons comprehensible only to the people who stole those years from him.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2020
• Hood by Air was more comprehensible as one thing: The industry called it streetwear.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2022
• The story's barely comprehensible, and the game's missing features have slowly been added one at a time since it was released in the fall of 2016.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 22 Jan. 2018
• As the cost of gasoline has risen by about forty per cent in the past twelve months, and the cost of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs has risen by thirteen per cent, these concerns are comprehensible.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Now that is a phrase that isn’t even comprehensible anymore.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• One group of news consumers got a more comprehensible take.
  — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• There is a schism among metal singers over whether to enunciate well enough to make lyrics comprehensible.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• Even in more comprehensible pieces in Under the Radar, the theme was excavation.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• The raw message looked too random to be comprehensible.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
• But the anger and frustration that fueled the looting here – and in Portland and Atlanta and Brooklyn and other spots in America – aren’t comprehensible to many of us.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2020
• Short and comprehensible was the format, but more importantly, the research had to be of the highest quality.
  — Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The movie was his show from start to finish, with Philippe hiring Driss for a readily comprehensible reason—the latter’s total absence of pity.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• We are designed by the same natural forces that terrify us to carry on in the face of scarcely comprehensible danger.
  — Stefan Beck, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Decades of drug and alcohol abuse, in addition to other ailments, had left him shuffling with the help of a cane, his speech a barely-comprehensible mumble.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• The beloved astrophysicist is on a speaking tour, making the vastness of the universe comprehensible.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
• Is the world really comprehensible, at least to some degree?
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024
• The issue is translating the sheer volume of information to the public in a comprehensible way.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• But YouTube videos created by QAnon believers help fill in the gaps and create a storyline that's more-or-less comprehensible.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
• In a fight that in more ways than one is led by Iranian women, what’s perhaps least comprehensible is the ideology of female Basij forces.
  — Tara Kangarlou, Time, 5 Dec. 2022
• The moderator, Jan Rybeck, coached the group on how to make someone’s perspective — in this case, on the migrant crisis at the border — more comprehensible.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2019
• The threat—that even something seemingly captured on tape could be false—is immediately comprehensible, genuinely scary, and no longer hypothetical.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024