comprehend

How To Use comprehend In A Sentence

• The term comprehended the whole nation, and no one will contend that the choice spoken of indicated that every Jew was safe for eternity. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
• Can't comprehend... He was suddenly aware of being shaken roughly. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
• He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine. Southern Cross
• The universe is still considerably uncomprehended by science. More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat
• As a affiliation in concept, hierarchy comprehended form category.
• There's something else afoot, something I will never understand or comprehend.
• Starring Dennis Quaid, it is the latest in a line of American sports movies to try their luck in front of largely uncomprehending British audiences.
• This is your charge; you shall comprehend all vagrom men. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times
• Then the Emir Salamah and his wife and household and all the tribesmen donned garbs black-hued and ashes whereupon to sit they strewed, and ungrateful to them was the taste of food and drink, meat and wine; nor ceased they to beweep their loss, nor could they comprehend what had befallen their son and what of ill-lot had descended upon him from Heaven. Arabian nights. English
• My lips parted in my confusion, and I stuttered a bit, embarrassingly, in my need to comprehend exactly what it was he was saying, ‘W-what?’