Sample Sentences for
comprehensive
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    You have one week to prepare a comprehensive report on why the initiative is failing.
    comprehensive = including everything important
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    Rudy and Tommy were given another comprehensive drill session while the others went inside to learn tactics.  (source)
    comprehensive = detailed
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    The figures above, compiled by Charles Stenger, PhD, in a comprehensive study of POW statistics for the Veterans Administration, appear to be definitive.  (source)
    comprehensive = large in scope
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    Morris's website described his company as "a boutique law firm focusing on the comprehensive needs of high-net-worth individuals."  (source)
    comprehensive = including everything important
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    Black Sam, as he was commonly called, from his being about three shades blacker than any other son of ebony on the place, was revolving the matter profoundly in all its phases and bearings, with a comprehensiveness of vision and a strict lookout to his own personal well-being, that would have done credit to any white patriot in Washington.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Oh, isn't it wonderful?" she said, waving her hand comprehensively at the good world outside.†  (source)
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    I don't know how to put all of what we've seen and done together into one comprehensive something that will make sense to anyone but me.  (source)
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    The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.†  (source)
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    They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so many dogs, so many days, Q.E.D. Mercedes looked over their shoulders and nodded comprehensively, it was all so very simple.†  (source)
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    On his spice shelves was a compendium of the world's predilections and in his cooler a comprehensive survey of birds and beasts hanging from hooks by their feet.  (source)
    comprehensive = large in scope
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    Robert Fitzgerald's subtle and strong translation brings out the grave tones of the original, and is exemplary in helping us follow its sustained intensity of focus alongside its massive comprehensiveness.†  (source)
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    So what's the point of framing rules that cannot be comprehensively carried out by anyone?†  (source)
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    As an advocate for comprehensive sex education and support for women, [I want to say] your experiment definitely opened the eyes for many concerning this issue.  (source)
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