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

Ms. Ginsburg started from the premise that she needed to provide some basic education for an audience that was not so much hostile as uncomprehending.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2020

At first he merely gazed at me, uncomprehending, repeatedly blinking.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi