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

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

The mechanisms through which it ravages bats, once mysterious, are now comprehensible.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

The codebook was like a dictionary, enabling the code clerk to translate a message into a secret language, comprehensible only to those with access to it.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau