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  • The concept was so absolutely foreign that I couldn't comprehend what she was trying to say.   (source)
  • The others nodded in perfect comprehension.   (source)
    comprehension = understanding
  • It took several blinks of my eyes for me to comprehend that it was Lilian's face, and not Mother's, that I was gawking at.   (source)
    comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
  • Tears had been wetting her cheeks from the beginning, but they'd seemed to belong to somebody else, not a part of her, as if her body were responding to the horrific scene before her brain could comprehend it.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • This would take some time to comprehend.   (source)
    comprehend = to fully understand
  • Orleanna, the human body is a sight
    more precious than a pair of khaki trousers from Sears and Roebuck. I'd expect you to comprehend the difference.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • Disoriented and confused though she may be, she is exerting all her strength to comprehend the logic underlying this place-the basis of its existence.   (source)
  • You must not have heard a word of Doctor Spivey's theory of the Therapeutic Community, or not have had the education to comprehend it if you did.   (source)
  • At last I began to comprehend what girls giggled about.   (source)
  • He is much fish still and I saw that the hook was in the corner of his mouth and he has kept his mouth tight shut. The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.   (source)
  • That was comprehensible.   (source)
    comprehensible = understandable
  • With one quick rush of comprehension he understood what she was doing.   (source)
    comprehension = understanding (especially complete understanding)
  • "Spelled with an E," gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important
    point.
    Mrs. Barry, not hearing or not comprehending, merely shook hands and said kindly: "How are you?"   (source)
    comprehending = understanding
  • ...began to comprehend that the situation might become serious;   (source)
    comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
  • I only half comprehend her.   (source)
    comprehend = completely understand
  • At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.   (source)
    comprehending = understanding
  • Everything that is unattainable now will some day be near at hand and comprehensible   (source)
    comprehensible = capable of being well understood
  • It seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to comprehend the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by mankind from the beginning.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • ...she knew by instinct that her grandmother did not comprehend the gravity of the situation.   (source)
    comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
  • ...a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.   (source)
    comprehending = understanding
  • I could not quite comprehend it   (source)
    comprehend = understand completely
  • You do not comprehend?   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • He did not thoroughly comprehend the meaning of his father's speech,   (source)
  • She, like most Americans, doesn't fully comprehend the American political system.†   (source)
  • Following the tiny light, I watched it begin to descend while my brain tried to comprehend what it was seeing.†   (source)
  • Slowly rising, he looks around at the hundreds of startled men who are trying to comprehend the scene in front of them.†   (source)
  • His eyes read the words, but at first his brain could not comprehend them.†   (source)
  • And still trying to comprehend why I was in so much trouble.†   (source)
  • The guttural eruptions and long flowing vowels rolled just beneath my comprehension like a beautiful brook.†   (source)
  • He wished he could comprehend the message, both for Sophie's well-being and for his own.†   (source)
  • Thomas narrowed his eyes as they ran toward the wall of darkness, trying to comprehend what they were approaching.†   (source)
  • That way, even as a pretty, unable to comprehend why she would ever want her brain fixed, Tally could at least read her own words and know what was about to happen.†   (source)
  • Comprehension dawned suddenly on Bagman's round, shiny face; he looked up at the skull, down at Winky, and then at Mr. Crouch.†   (source)
  • Governments being overthrown, cities rioting—they were beyond his comprehension.†   (source)
  • Do you comprehend its uses?†   (source)
  • The moment after it happened, Anna slowly comprehended what she'd just done.†   (source)
  • Mom still did not seem to comprehend.†   (source)
  • When she told him what she craved, though, he could not comprehend.†   (source)
  • And when Gerta, the little milkmaid, made friends with the zombies and asked them to please stop eating the villagers, Sunny, who was of course scarcely old enough to comprehend the orphans' situation, tried to think up a way to defeat Stephano's plans, whatever they were.†   (source)
  • I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.†   (source)
  • When I grab his wrists and lift upward, he pulls me to him in a move that happens faster than my mind can even comprehend.†   (source)
  • It took Ned a moment to comprehend her words, but when the understanding came, the darkness left his eyes.†   (source)
  • Gisa embroiders at the table, making something beautiful and exquisite and entirely beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Curtain's boosting the power," Reynie said gravely, and when Kate and Sticky looked at him, still not comprehending, he said, "It's the hidden messages.†   (source)
  • What was less comprehensible, however, was how Robbie imperiously raised his hand now, as though issuing a command which Cecilia dared not disobey.†   (source)
  • Women sometimes fixed him meals, and even the kidslooked up to the neighborhood boy who walked down the streets carrying thick books, well beyond their comprehension.†   (source)
  • Except that they don't need commandments: no thou shalt nots would be any good to them, or even comprehensible, because it's all built in.†   (source)
  • It wasn't easy for a person whose knowledge of life was based on the kitchen to comprehend the outside world.†   (source)
  • Writing in a language—adulthood—you can't comprehend, using an alphabet—mature social interaction—you can't recognize.†   (source)
  • He was being told something he could not comprehend.†   (source)
  • It pushes the limits of our ability to comprehend.†   (source)
  • You people seem not to comprehend that a minister is the Lord's man in the parish; a minister is not to be so lightly crossed and contradicted—†   (source)
  • Even a twenty-yearold man would be unable to comprehend it.†   (source)
  • I have never met anybody like me or never seen even an indication that there is somebody who actually has better powers of comprehension.†   (source)
  • His comprehension completely amazes me.†   (source)
  • He found that although it did not comprehend words, he could communicate with it through images or emotions.†   (source)
  • It belonged to the world of adults, and adults often did things, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes beyond comprehension, but they were allowed to do them simply because they were adults.†   (source)
  • I couldn't comprehend what or how I felt.†   (source)
  • On the first day he had not known if a four-year-old could truly comprehend the concept of death.†   (source)
  • When a simulation is running, your eyes still see and process the actual world, but your brain no longer comprehends them.†   (source)
  • As I stood at the door, not fully comprehending the sight, the trucks began to roll in.†   (source)
  • He just looked at me, eyes full of some emotion I couldn't comprehend.†   (source)
  • They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend.†   (source)
  • She's flying in a way we don't need to know the underlying myth of the flying Africans to comprehend.†   (source)
  • So many things have happened that's beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • Page after page, there was nothing we could even begin to comprehend.†   (source)
  • And that initial loss, which Burnham still found difficult to comprehend.†   (source)
  • ...and I am but a poor woman, alone, my husband having fled for reasons I cannot comprehend.†   (source)
  • She looked from one face to another, until she came to mine and gave a little gasp of comprehension.†   (source)
  • Also they spoke different variations of English, different Englishes, and so when Nadia gave voice to an idea or opinion among them, she did not need to fear that her views could not be comprehended, for her English was like theirs, one among many.†   (source)
  • She was simply unlike Lestat and me to such an extent I couldn't comprehend her; for little child she was, but also fierce killer now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding.†   (source)
  • "I had never encountered anybody at Michael's reading and comprehension level," she said.†   (source)
  • That split second as his hand moved toward me, too quickly for me to even comprehend what was about to happen.†   (source)
  • The lessons were far beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • He never comprehended, for example, the transparent nature of glass, and in moments of great emotion he would charge the windows at a gallop, with the innocent intention of catching a fly.†   (source)
  • I did not entirely comprehend it at the time, but me and my 110 cohorts were witnessing the ruthless elimination process of a U.S. fighting force that cannot tolerate a suspect component.†   (source)
  • As I continued to read, my spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension improved, and my classes became much more interesting.†   (source)
  • In any event, it was difficult for him to comprehend that two free adults without a past and living on the fringes of a closed society's prejudices had chosen the hazards of illicit love.†   (source)
  • It also contained detailed observations and information, and he quite simply could not comprehend how she could have acquired such facts.†   (source)
  • She liked to hear me read the catechism in English, although she could not understand all I read, and I myself could not yet read with complete comprehension.†   (source)
  • And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.†   (source)
  • The differences in the ways he comprehended the universe haunted him — accuracy matched with inaccuracy.†   (source)
  • The guardian of the realm raced about in happy puppy circles, too young as yet to comprehend the danger that surrounded them all.†   (source)
  • The sheet of reading comprehension questions on the side table was just as white as it had been when Mrs. Lemon passed it out two days ago.†   (source)
  • I told Quentin my comprehension of it and he nodded.†   (source)
  • He saw her surprise and then her quick nod of comprehension as she complied.†   (source)
  • Cate stiffened beside me; I caught the sudden comprehension fall over her features, out of the corner of my eye.†   (source)
  • But none of them, may I say, has fully comprehended the reasons for the attitude France has adopted towards her neighbour.†   (source)
  • Through the stark trees we saw it, the immense toxic cloud, lighted now by eighteen choppers— immense almost beyond comprehension, beyond legend and rumor, a roiling bloated slug-shaped mass.†   (source)
  • They also could not comprehend the real purpose of commercials and trusted that advertising claims were true.†   (source)
  • He was driven in a way few of us can comprehend.†   (source)
  • They should, really, all of them, still be living in stables, with horses and cows, and should not be expected to tax themselves with matters beyond their comprehension.†   (source)
  • The classic Ebola face made the monkeys look as if they had seen something beyond comprehension.†   (source)
  • The incident brought home the extent of the task Edna has set for herself and how hard it is for us to comprehend fully what she is up against.†   (source)
  • My mom shakes her head, as if she can't comprehend why I'm making a big deal about this.†   (source)
  • First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend.†   (source)
  • Respect her limitations to comprehend your objectives, and remember that she is touchy towards criticism of your Dad.†   (source)
  • She is not to be blamed that the language was as absolutely above the comprehension of her hearers as though it had been Greek.†   (source)
  • I stare, still trying to comprehend.†   (source)
  • "These people" were still beyond his comprehension.†   (source)
  • He disappears behind a copse of trees, and Josh and Rashmi are talking, but I don't comprehend their words.†   (source)
  • Economic and social behaviors, Galbraith continued, are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring.†   (source)
  • It is beyond comprehension!†   (source)
  • It was difficult for me to comprehend this insistence upon propriety.†   (source)
  • We take this in, not quite comprehending it.†   (source)
  • A chilling voice spoke through the door, its gurgling words now perfectly comprehensible.†   (source)
  • What I had done was beyond their comprehension, and I sat in my grandparents' living room rigid with shame at the emergency family meeting, while they questioned me for hours, trying to make some sort of sense of what was happening.†   (source)
  • I could hardly comprehend what he was saying; it was all crashing in my brain so fast.†   (source)
  • Herschel was willing to accept and shoulder more than his share of responsibility for their fractious relationship, but he could not begin to comprehend getting cut out completely.†   (source)
  • With blood running in the streets of Havana, it was only a matter of time before America comprehended the truth.†   (source)
  • Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him.†   (source)
  • Similarly, simple African villagers who have never left their remote homes may not be particularly surprised by their first sight of an airplane: it is outside their comprehension.†   (source)
  • A moment's glance and an instant of comprehension was all that they needed.†   (source)
  • He lowered his hand and stared at a tree without full comprehension.†   (source)
  • It would take them a moment to comprehend who I was and why I was calling.†   (source)
  • Both of us gasped for air while kissing each other softly and I struggled to comprehend I was still a virgin.†   (source)
  • Great brown crenulated walls hemmed in the terraced patchwork of potato and wheat fields as they climbed, like the battlements of castles constructed beyond the scale of human comprehension.†   (source)
  • What we do, we do for reasons beyond your comprehension.†   (source)
  • She almost couldn't comprehend the meaning of the word.†   (source)
  • They sounded sincere, and believed he had a fair comprehension of English.†   (source)
  • In a way I had never quite comprehended before, I realized the role I could play in court and the possibilities before me as a defendant.†   (source)
  • I know that's hard to comprehend, but you'll get it.†   (source)
  • Moses looked Cesar up and down for a few moments and comprehended Cesar's predicament.†   (source)
  • He eats instinctively, without comprehension, and she reads him poetry from the clutter of books on her dresser, hoping to console him.†   (source)
  • Thanks a lot for your best comprehension.†   (source)
  • The men I looked up to, the men I worked with, those men are the best in the world and have done more for this country than people will ever comprehend.†   (source)
  • In split seconds, he tried to comprehend.†   (source)
  • But, if my mother told me to be "nice" to someone—it was too vague for me to comprehend.†   (source)
  • The idea was beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • The leader of the group comprehended this.†   (source)
  • Uncle Eddie says there is an unseen force at work of which we have no comprehension.†   (source)
  • He came to his senses groggily and, at first, could not comprehend his surroundings as he wriggled out of a blanket that he did not remember bringing.†   (source)
  • She closes the gap between us a moment later, and before I can comprehend what she's doing, she hugs me.†   (source)
  • He could see her wheels spinning, translating this to something comprehensible.†   (source)
  • His frustration over it went,up and down like a barometer, the climate being the extent to which he was able to comprehend and resolve whatever mathematical problem preoccupied him at any given moment.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: ....who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension .... NICK: George and Martha: sad, sad, sad.†   (source)
  • It was all too alien to comprehend, the mortars and big guns; and even if he could have taken the old man to see the target areas, even if he could have led him through the fallen jungle trees and muddy craters of torn earth to show him the dead, the old man would not have believed anything so monstrous.†   (source)
  • If the only thing we can rest on is how good life is here on Earth, then it may be comprehensible to think life ain't so bad.†   (source)
  • Yet this is no more comprehensible to common sense than religious mysteries that non-believers work so hard to debunk.†   (source)
  • I'm a more comprehensible evil—and it is viewed as evil—than the Horvath.†   (source)
  • That was it, really—the most a two-year-old would be able to comprehend.†   (source)
  • How it was possible to have built those things up there was beyond my comprehension, but there they were—luxurious villas built in trees.†   (source)
  • We civilized Westerners find this almost impossible to comprehend.†   (source)
  • Most of the girls didn't seem to comprehend.†   (source)
  • PLAYER: Well, it's a device, really-it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible; you understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.†   (source)
  • I tell you that a clever, thoughtful, ambitious hairdresser wields a power beyond the comprehension of most men.†   (source)
  • This recalcitrant behavior seemed to mystify pilot and engineer alike, and it was not until some of the gentlemen from the beer parlor ran out, and stood shouting soundlessly against the roar and pointing at our skis, that we began to comprehend the nature of our dilemma.†   (source)
  • KATE comprehends it, their first act of verbal communication, and she can hardly utter the word aloud, in wonder, gratitude, and deprivation; it is a moment in which she simultaneously finds and loses a child.†   (source)
  • Andrew Carson's intriguing volumes and curves changed slowly as one watched, according to complex patterns that the mind could appreciate, even if it could not fully comprehend them.†   (source)
  • Life is only comprehensible through a thousand local Gods.†   (source)
  • Comprehension seemed to come first to Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Now, I'm recognising you, and don't comprehend any more how I couldn't recognise you right away.†   (source)
  • But she could see that he couldn't comprehend it.†   (source)
  • His face showed no comprehension.†   (source)
  • At last there came a flicker and then a flame of comprehension across her face, and she spoke.†   (source)
  • What is difficult to comprehend is that he saw no wrong in it—morally or otherwise.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps," he said, "some of you do not comprehend the size of the job and the importance of the job.†   (source)
  • Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.†   (source)
  • I comprehend everything--everything, I tell you.   (source)
  • Many an evening I have worked over them—we all did something of the kind—but that has become so unreal to me I cannot comprehend it any more.   (source)
  • I look at him without comprehending.   (source)
    comprehending = understanding
  • And his opinion is quite typical, here one meets it time and again, and there is nothing with which one can properly counter it, because that is the limit of their comprehension of the factors involved.   (source)
  • I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken no alarm.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • "Well now, I dunno as I comprehend them all myself," acknowledged Matthew.   (source)
    comprehend = fully understand
  • Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what I saw.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole;   (source)
    comprehend = fully understand
  • "Dupin," said I, gravely, "this is beyond my comprehension."   (source)
    comprehension = understanding
  • In her own room, she tried to comprehend it.   (source)
    comprehend = understand or understand completely
  • The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people.   (source)
    comprehended = understood
  • Marilla's impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne's tearless agony.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.   (source)
    comprehend = to completely understand
  • I can perfectly comprehend your feelings.   (source)
    comprehend = understand
  • He shakes his head a little, trying to comprehend what I'm telling him.†   (source)
  • "I can't begin to comprehend," Jake said.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Eragon sensed comprehension rush through the listeners.†   (source)
  • Matters you are far too dim to comprehend.†   (source)
  • There were small noises of comprehension around the table.†   (source)
  • I can't possibly comprehend at this moment what it must be like to actually have a broken heart.†   (source)
  • "Mikey," said Cade, "are you comprehending this guy's power?"†   (source)
  • Katherine was starting to comprehend the appeal of Pod 5.†   (source)
  • A second later, comprehension came and I gasped in horror.†   (source)
  • Maxon stared at his father, still not fully comprehending his words.†   (source)
  • "The dog," I say, not comprehending whose voice it is.†   (source)
  • I'm sure I have no in-depth comprehension of American villainy; yet I can't leave the news alone!†   (source)
  • No doubt his quick mind had already comprehended every aspect that eluded me.†   (source)
  • But this kind of anger, this murderous, destructive, terrible scene is beyond my comprehension.†   (source)
  • He couldn't begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.†   (source)
  • No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.†   (source)
  • He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comprehend.†   (source)
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