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

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

But after a spring and summer spent sitting uncomprehending before a computer, as pixelated teachers failed to reach him, the 7-year-old’s vocabulary dropped to 25.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2020

I looked at the spot where flesh joined with plaster, stared at it uncomprehending.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler