beyond comprehension

idiom

: impossible to imagine
The war caused suffering beyond comprehension.

Examples of beyond comprehension in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web What was going on off the stage was just beyond comprehension — stretchers and dead bodies and people throwing up and people having bad trips. Gary Graff, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2024 The camera moves like the audience is taking its own beating, and the frame holds on bodies being pulverized and sliced up in favor of chopping and screwing the fight sequence beyond comprehension in postproduction. Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 The movie imagines a worst-case scenario in which American society unravels beyond comprehension, and centers the frontline journalists trying to make sense of the ensuing chaos. David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024 Swift traffics in numbers beyond comprehension – a tour that generates $1 billion in domestic ticket sales, a clean sweep of Billboard’s Top 5, a 10-minute song topping the chart in an era of TikTok attention spans – but her greatest feat may arrive on Super Bowl Sunday. Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beyond comprehension 

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“Beyond comprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20comprehension. Accessed 13 Oct. 2024.

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