How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

noun
  • The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
  • 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
  • To call the Cavs the favorite in the East only pays due respect to that level of comprehension.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • But his recent comments reveal his lack of comprehension about the scope of what the players want to change.
    P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • The tests then ask questions designed to assess comprehension: What’s the main idea of the passage?
    Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The drug is potent almost beyond comprehension — and that’s what changes the game.
    Fortune, 6 June 2018
  • The Eighth stands out for its utter excess of love, the force beyond comprehension.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • For reading comprehension, ask your kid to figure out the who, what, where,, when, why and how for stories.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • For one kid to take them away from their life and parents is beyond our comprehension.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The gushing is more likely to boost his ego than his comprehension.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The thought of that phone call — that your child is the victim in a mass shooting — is beyond comprehension as a human being.
    Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • News like that can defy comprehension for a 10-year-old.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The idea that Ukraine’s military would seek to kill them is beyond comprehension, said Maj.
    New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The following interview was edited for length and comprehension.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
  • My focus would be on reading comprehension, specifically looking at striving for higher proficiencies by the third grade.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024

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