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

He was wearing his mug-shot face, but the eyes were uncomprehending.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

Gray explores his own budding awareness of injustice in “Armageddon Time,” which like “Jojo Rabbit” and “Belfast” navigates daunting moral calculations through the eyes of an intuitive but also uncomprehending child.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022

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

Mama Oji’s cool uncomprehending eyes drilled holes into Olanna.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie