How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

noun

• The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
• Yet, as of today, their answers are few and vague, as if the thought of a tech giant dying were beyond our comprehension.
  — Carl Öhman, TIME, 31 July 2024
• The money topics with the biggest drops in comprehension were inflation, risk and interest rates.
  — Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
• With each turn of a card, the next act is revealed, and in a flash the world can end, devoured in the misshapen gullet of an entity beyond mortal comprehension.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• Duff How denying investment and job creation is going to help anybody is beyond my comprehension.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• Ultimately, standing by the decision to accept my humanness is what helped me to navigate a new comprehension of my faith.
  — Imani Bashir, Teen Vogue, 10 May 2019
• The standing dead spruce on the Russell Fjord shoreline are a monument to what can happen in this big country, almost too large for comprehension.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2019
• Reading comprehension is a vital gateway skill to all learning and California’s students are not doing well.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• His team found that by the end of fifth grade, middle-class students often were ahead of grade level in reading comprehension, while more disadvantaged students tended to be years behind.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2019
• Rachael said this pollution/recycling unit brought several disciplines into play, such as reading, writing, comprehension and fine motor skills, for each student.
  — cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
• Everything about my diagnosis was beyond my comprehension.
  — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
• Performance was assessed based on a test measuring understanding, comprehension and memorization of the book.
  — oregonlive, 30 May 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
• 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 lower court decisions refusing to apply Bostock to Title IX fail a very basic reading comprehension test.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024