uncomprehending

Example Sentences

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His Gogo gives a blank, uncomprehending thousand-yard stare into the void that has an unsettling power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

All he could do was gaze back at them, uncomprehending.

From Salon • May 6, 2023

Like the dozens of her other proposals, amounting to hundreds of pages, this one went either unread or unremarked upon by her mostly uncomprehending superior officers.

From Slate • May 25, 2021

I was uncomprehending at first, but then one thing leads to another and you are off to the races, reading all the way.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020

I was, at first, too startled to know of my sensations, staring down upon him, almost uncomprehending.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson