How to Use comprehend in a Sentence

comprehend

verb

• The last few months have been bizarre and hard to comprehend.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 June 2020
• Way too many times to count, way too many words to comprehend.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2020
• There is still so much to comprehend.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• People can't comprehend that this is all tape and an art project.
  — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
• Most of all, trees seem to grow on a timescale humans can comprehend.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Children and adults could not comprehend the tragedy ahead of them.
  — Mary Laporte, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
• Rivera said the rule shouldn’t be hard for players to comprehend.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• But at a certain point, the mind can’t comprehend.
  — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
• Kids don’t comprehend how a parent’s body has changed.
  — Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
• Most children at that age have yet to fully comprehend what death is.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
• But let’s try to comprehend it anyway.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 12 June 2026
• Each response comes with its own well of feelings that can be hard to comprehend.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 19 June 2019
• The word was too hard to pronounce, the notion too bizarre to comprehend.
  — Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
• The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
  — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• Both found black and mixed-race speakers harder to comprehend than white ones.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Kennedy can work on comprehending those pesky accents on the side.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
• These days David is growing up fast — faster than the singer can quite comprehend.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• It isn't meant to be for dads who don't comprehend events, to send in their daughters to do their jobs for them.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
• This has been made worse by recent life events and changes that Mike can’t comprehend.
  — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
• For them, the earthquake was just the latest tragedy — one that many are still too shocked to comprehend.
  — Mehmet Guzel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• The futile attempts to comprehend this heinous act, and the hours of hugs and tears, soon gave way to anger.
  — Ted Deutch, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• When Alan came up to me and said someone wants to sign him, that thought was very hard to comprehend.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
• These are the five steps people need to hear and comprehend for an idea to make sense and take action on your idea.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The scale of such theft is hard to comprehend, and even harder to quantify.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• But the magnitude of the attacks can still be a lot for younger minds to comprehend in a few lessons.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
• The Old Ones move through time and space humans can’t comprehend.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Acts that the world cannot comprehend, nor could most Americans.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
• Jones the businessman comprehends the concept of a sunk cost.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• The need for capital investment is at a scale that is hard to comprehend.
  — Heather Landy, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022