comprehensible

Example Sentences

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"What will never be comprehensible, justified or admitted is violence," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Art—crude or cruel, adolescent or arch—is supposed to make comprehensible the incomprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

"To discover that he had always set out to hurt the vulnerable is beyond comprehensible," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

The impulse to domesticate performance into a comprehensible story was denied by the sensory bombardment of his productions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Though I knew nothing about the X-ray diffraction techniques that dominated structural analysis, I was optimistic that the spoken arguments would be more comprehensible than the journal articles, which passed over my head.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson