How to Use comprehend in a Sentence

comprehend

verb
  • The last few months have been bizarre and hard to comprehend.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 June 2020
  • The futile attempts to comprehend this heinous act, and the hours of hugs and tears, soon gave way to anger.
    — Ted Deutch, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Way too many times to count, way too many words to comprehend.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Children and adults could not comprehend the tragedy ahead of them.
    — Mary Laporte, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Death is a scary aspect of life that is hard to comprehend.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
  • But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Rivera said the rule shouldn’t be hard for players to comprehend.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Most of all, trees seem to grow on a timescale humans can comprehend.
    — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • For them, the earthquake was just the latest tragedy — one that many are still too shocked to comprehend.
    — Mehmet Guzel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • When Alan came up to me and said someone wants to sign him, that thought was very hard to comprehend.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
  • However, even then, the countries of the world didn’t truly comprehend the scope of the threat.
    — Kirti Shanker, National Review, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But the magnitude of the attacks can still be a lot for younger minds to comprehend in a few lessons.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The devastation of the fire that ripped through West Maui on Aug. 8 is hard to comprehend.
    — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The numbers coming out of Gaza can be hard to comprehend.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • These days David is growing up fast — faster than the singer can quite comprehend.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
  • These are the five steps people need to hear and comprehend for an idea to make sense and take action on your idea.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The scale of such theft is hard to comprehend, and even harder to quantify.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
  • The shooting seemed doubly hard to comprehend for many in Ukraine.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 25 May 2022
  • If those numbers are hard to comprehend, how about this?
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The battle shows that some managers can’t comprehend that the world has changed along with the mindset of workers.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most people just could not comprehend my point of view.
    — Jodi Cilley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jones the businessman comprehends the concept of a sunk cost.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Each response comes with its own well of feelings that can be hard to comprehend.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 19 June 2019
  • Our minds are not equipped to comprehend those numbers.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Okposo, now 36, at the time couldn’t comprehend the emotions that went through winning the Stanley Cup.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024
  • There is no way to fully comprehend the toll of the past two years without looking closer at some of the losses.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • Kennedy can work on comprehending those pesky accents on the side.
    — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
  • With all these new tools, humans could perceive much more than the eye could behold, more than the mind could comprehend.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Both found black and mixed-race speakers harder to comprehend than white ones.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Even the mirror against the far wall appears vacant as Cassidy stares, trying to comprehend.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025

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