How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

noun

• The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
• Donning such a wardrobe might have seemed beyond comprehension to Russell just a couple months ago.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2019
• What happened next almost defies comprehension, even years after the fact.
  — Brian Stewart, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
• In other cases, it's been used to beat reading comprehension tests and finish your sentences (looking at you, Gmail).
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2019
• Reading aloud increases focus on and comprehension of what’s written.
  — Alice Adams, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
• For reasons beyond my comprehension, she will not be granted that opportunity.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 26 July 2019
• None come anywhere close to matching humans in reading comprehension or other general abilities the test was designed to measure.
  — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
• The technical co-founder watched me complete a reading-comprehension section from the LSAT.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• But to what extent is reasoning, comprehension, or knowledge of science actually needed to answer these questions?
  — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
• This area of the brain controls fear response and word comprehension, among other things, which explains my inexplicable terror and inability to speak during my episodes.
  — Health.com, 31 July 2019
• Plus, changing things up in this nonbinding way will likely give you a different view of what’s happening — quite literally, when your plans take you out of the house — which tends to expand comprehension.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Plus, changing things up in this nonbinding way will likely give you a different view of what's happening -- quite literally, when your plans take you out of the house -- which tends to expand comprehension.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2019
• Now is not the time to be valuing speed at the cost of comprehension.
  — Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• In other words, the gap in comprehension wasn’t a gap in skills.
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 9 July 2019
• The only thing was maybe her comprehension of plays and teaching her that and the why of things.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2018
• From there, the effort both teams gave to keep the ball off the floor was beyond comprehension.
  — Jacob Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
• The back and forth in this match is beyond comprehension.
  — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
• For all my comprehension the course book may as well be on patent law.
  — Cheryl Jarvis, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The scenes of rage, violence and agony are so vast that the whole of it may still be beyond comprehension.
  — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• The paper points out that there are two schools of thought about how to teach reading comprehension.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Can some kind of real comprehension of the world emerge through that prison house of language?
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But the way her mom was stolen from her defies comprehension.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• The timing and the reach of the platform — the amount of people who saw it in such a short period of time — that was beyond the scope of my comprehension.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022
• The all-carb, all-the-time diet the elves follow is funny, and beyond the comprehension of the soldiers stationed at the North Pole.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• And then there’s the H.P. Lovecraft take on it, which is ‘aliens are beyond our comprehension.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2020
• There’s a bit of a change from season one to season two in the level of comprehension of the character.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
• Her hearing might be fine, but her own comprehension seems to be faulty.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
• In the case of the cosmos the timescale is well beyond our very short lifetimes or even beyond our comprehension.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• The lower court decisions refusing to apply Bostock to Title IX fail a very basic reading comprehension test.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 July 2024
• For example, if a student struggles with listening comprehension, AI can focus on that skill while continuing to reinforce vocabulary.
  — Nina Greenwood, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024