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

Skeptics who had been perplexed by Mr. Gehry’s squirming metallic shapes suddenly found them perfectly comprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

"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

This visit, this pilgrimage, made comprehensible, finally, the traces that remained and would always remain, like a needle.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston