How to Use ken in a Sentence

ken

noun

• So there was a spot, the middle square of 24A, that was beyond my ken.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 2020-03-15
• Scorsese went beyond the ken of the comics and video-game generation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2019-10-09
• For years, the two of us have been charting a bloody course across the briny blue, looting every schooner fool enough to drift into our ken.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 2020-02-28
• An honest broker trapped in a wicked game, Marshall was in the end whipsawed by cultural and political forces beyond his ken.
  — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, 2018-05-03
• Many of the items had been disabled by departing U.S. troops or are beyond the ken of Taliban fighters to operate.
  — Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 2021-09-05
• Fixing its flaws has been beyond the ken of the nation’s two major political parties, which scarcely know how to negotiate anymore.
  — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, 2017-04-02
• His nuanced understanding of Davis’s playing — its harmonic and rhythmic wirings as well as its smoldering tone — was only part of a vast musical ken.
  — Giovanni Russonello, BostonGlobe.com, 2020-04-02
• In real life that motivation was aided by a midmorning break of free brownies, cookies and gummy worms, a staple of contemporary youth beyond the ken of Mark Twain.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 2019-10-16
• That may not really be Scott’s ken, but there’s something insistent about All the Money in the World’s story that isn’t quite adequately addressed.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 2017-12-19
• But practical considerations aside, Slofstra has shown that there is, mathematically at least, a way of assessing a fundamental feature of the universe that might otherwise have seemed beyond our ken.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2019-03-05
• In short, if Trump is playing 3D chess, Pelosi must be operating in some more sophisticated double-digit dimension that’s so beyond the ken of regular voters that none of us can possibly comprehend it.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 2019-07-24
• True mobility is something beyond the ken of most machines, explains Hod Lipson, a professor of engineering at Columbia University.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 2019-07-17