How to Use incomprehension in a Sentence

incomprehension

noun

• She gave me a look of complete incomprehension.
• He viewed the situation with incomprehension.
• The names of the elements have long been a source of contention and incomprehension.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• Janet had never known the rules of baseball, and her incomprehension put her on edge.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• The point of surveys and analyses like this to tear down the veils prejudice and incomprehension which plague the mainstream.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• Posts there with technical advice for the best home setup were jargon-filled to the point of incomprehension for a newbie.
  — Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• The comradeship of men at arms becomes a refuge from the incomprehension of family.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• When Trump did in fact win, there was a moment of stunned incomprehension at this unprecedented intrusion of the real into the world on the other side of the screen.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• At root, the violence of May was born of mutual incomprehension.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• Most of her interactions are clouded by incomprehension at why things that are so clear to her should seem so peculiar to everyone else.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Some of us were unimpressed, while others snarled at the unimpressed’s incomprehension of Roupenian’s achievement.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• This resumption reawakens Shara’s incomprehension, shame, and—something that first emerged two short years ago—her animal instinct to fight.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• No, the real problems arise when Ozark stages so many of its scenes in ways that downplay visual contrast, leaving almost everything shrouded in shadow, to the point of genuine incomprehension.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 1 Sep. 2018
• Department detox The problem with Trump goes far beyond the president’s own vast incomprehension of foreign affairs.
  — James W. Carden, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2019
• And Squibb’s Momo, who has Alzheimer’s, gives poignant expression to the best and worst of her experience, showing us how moments of lucidity fight for dominance amid a blur of incomprehension and pain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• The discovery, in 2012, was the culmination of years of obsessive research by Langley, who faced the incomprehension of friends and family and the derision of experts and academics, and whose role was largely overlooked.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
• Benedict Cumberbatch plays a man who exhibits rage, jealousy, and incomprehension when his brother marries.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• Rivas offers an on-the-edge performance that makes Luisa’s nervousness hard to watch, while d’Elia’s almost otherworldly clear eyes express worlds of incomprehension and rebellion.
  — Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
• One of the major issues at work in the earlier controversies was one of methodological and cognitive incomprehension.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
• These uncollegiate expressions of failure and incomprehension in Walker’s retellings reveal—like the border between her black cutout edges and her white backgrounds—something significant in the contrast.
  — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• The series does lean a little hard at first into gags about intergenerational mutual incomprehension and Liza almost blowing her cover by forgetting not to act her age.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Dabo Swinney’s incomprehension of capitalism and his lousy metaphors won’t derail Clemson football.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
• Violent outbursts, incomprehension, disputes, panic attacks: Lockdown is a shock to many children with special needs, cut off from their friends and teachers, deprived of their reassuring routine.
  — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• The first, long section whirls by entertainingly, buoyed by Greenspan’s impish charm, but eventually our incomprehension slows and roughens the experience, changing it into . . .
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2022
• Both places saw Spanish incursions from the south, mutual incomprehension in the meeting of Europeans and aboriginals, waves of disease that devastated the natives and a relentless quest by the newcomers for the raw materials of empire.
  — Philip Connors, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Her parents battled their own depression and anxiety, their initial incomprehension of the situation, and a years-long succession of crises and demands on their moral, material and emotional resources.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
• Viewers unfamiliar with the source material are required to suspend not just their disbelief but also their incomprehension.
  — Tim Dowling, Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2017
• What writer does not, at some point, endure the opposite—the awful vulnerability of her words in the world, and her inability to defend them from being misread, even mutilated, by those goblin rats of malice, envy, laziness, mere incomprehension?
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Like a savvy curator, Lehrer leads her audience from incomprehension to understanding, from innocence to experience, building a messy arc full of stalls and setbacks, repetitions and revelations.
  — Kathleen Rooney, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• As viewers we are locked into Cáit’s fog of incomprehension, with an accompanying powerlessness that feels more true to childhood experience than a thousand films about hyper-confident, wisecracking young people.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022

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