COMPREHEND in a Sentence

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177 example sentences for COMPREHEND, such as:

1. I fail to comprehend their attitude.
2. I just cannot comprehend your attitude.
3. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it.
4. The magnitude of the flood was impossible to comprehend.
5. The child read the story but did not comprehend its meaning.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPREHEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
comprehend
 v.  take in the meaning, nature, or importance of; grasp
Classic Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  I did, and I could not quite comprehend it: it made me giddy.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Something had happened which I could not comprehend; no one knew of or had seen the event but myself: it had taken place the preceding night.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  I waited, expecting he would say something I could at least comprehend; but his hand was now at his chin, his finger on his lip: he was thinking.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  When I remembered how far I had once been admitted to his confidence, I could hardly comprehend his present frigidity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motives his cousin could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other way.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  I do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
10  I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
11  Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41
12  You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41
13  You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
14  Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
15  She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
Example Sentence:
1  And though I don't comprehend how it is, I perceive you have acquired a degree of regard for that foolish little child Adele, too; and even for simple dame Fairfax?
2  The magnitude of the flood was impossible to comprehend.
3  The disadvantage of the epigram is the temptation it affords to good people to explain it to the others who are assumed to be too obtuse to comprehend it alone.
4  Potential investors want reassurance that your market is sizable and that you comprehend the opportunities and limitations of the market.
5  My mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell.
6  Our country, in case you are too stupid to comprehend, is being ruined by the policies of this administration.
7  I fail to comprehend their attitude.
8  I just cannot comprehend your attitude.
9  They can neither read nor write, nor can they comprehend such concepts.
10  The child read the story but did not comprehend its meaning.
11  The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems.
12  I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.