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

I was uncomprehending at first, but then one thing leads to another and you are off to the races, reading all the way.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020

Then they all set their uncomprehending eyes on Sheriff Dean.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool