INCOMPREHENSIBLE in a Sentence

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56 example sentences for INCOMPREHENSIBLE, such as:

1. his incomprehensible brutality.
2. I find your attitude quite incomprehensible.
3. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
4. How Charles could take such a thing into his head was always incomprehensible to me.
5. Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCOMPREHENSIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incomprehensible
 a.  unintelligible; difficult to understand
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
3  his incomprehensible brutality.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  With a sort of second sight he sensed something new in her, something to him quite incomprehensible, but he ascribed it to the baby.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  And Connie had to plod dumbly across into the wood, knowing he was standing there watching her, with that incomprehensible grin on his face.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  And out of his utter, incomprehensible stillness, she felt again the slow momentous, surging rise of the phallus again, the other power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  How Charles could take such a thing into his head was always incomprehensible to me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  "I have been told an incomprehensible thing," she said mournfully.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
11  We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
12  Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  Her image, that incomprehensible, almost meaningless, but bewitching image, was deeply rooted in his heart.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Natasha did not understand what he was saying any more than he did himself, but she felt that his incomprehensible words had an improper intention.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X
15  The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  John McCain, a Vietnam War hero of almost incomprehensible bravery and valor, is also trapped by a world view from another time.
2  The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
3  I find your attitude quite incomprehensible.