How to Use comprehensible in a Sentence

comprehensible

adjective
  • Not to judge, but to make things comprehensible.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And the premise, which is barely comprehensible at the best of times, just wafts in and out of the play as suits the song choice.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2017
  • Still, none of this makes Cunanan comprehensible or, when all is said and done, pitiable.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • And within it, the number of melodies is in a more comprehensible part of finitude.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2020
  • There is a schism among metal singers over whether to enunciate well enough to make lyrics comprehensible.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • And then there is the other loss, less comprehensible, less tangible still — the loss of a year in our lives.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Less comprehensible are the motives of people who do the work of the state without the pretense of getting paid for it.
    — Ava Kofman, New Republic, 10 May 2017
  • Williams lost 37 years of his life for reasons comprehensible only to the people who stole those years from him.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2020
  • To put it another way, midlife reckonings revise the events of the past to make the present comprehensible.
    — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.
    — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
  • All of it’s fake, from an ever-growing branch of accounts that use the same verbiage and link to barely comprehensible mock news stories.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Practically no words but the few that introduced the next song were comprehensible.
    — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Because the chat was filled with comprehensible English words and the emote was a direct response to the actions of the streamer.
    — John Alexander, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • We are designed by the same natural forces that terrify us to carry on in the face of scarcely comprehensible danger.
    — Stefan Beck, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In many ways, the political press is trying to keep up with the campaigns so that their decision-making is comprehensible.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2020
  • As the cost of gasoline has risen by about forty per cent in the past twelve months, and the cost of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs has risen by thirteen per cent, these concerns are comprehensible.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • More comprehensible research has shown that behavior seems to be the most important tool to cope with extreme heat in warm-blooded creatures.
    — Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Mental models are representations that make the world comprehensible through the lens of cause and effect.
    — Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Even in more comprehensible pieces in Under the Radar, the theme was excavation.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The depth of the loss Kanye felt since Donda’s death in 2007 is for a moment made comprehensible.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Short and comprehensible was the format, but more importantly, the research had to be of the highest quality.
    — Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The beloved astrophysicist is on a speaking tour, making the vastness of the universe comprehensible.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Williams has ease and elegance onstage, as well as the ability to make tiny expressive changes comprehensible to an audience far away.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The issue is translating the sheer volume of information to the public in a comprehensible way.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Decades of drug and alcohol abuse, in addition to other ailments, had left him shuffling with the help of a cane, his speech a barely-comprehensible mumble.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In this quest, the reader often finds that through the understanding of the fictional, the real becomes more comprehensible.
    — Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And frequently the places too are degraded, left open to exploitation, for lack of a comprehensible name to point out their natures or recall their histories.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The story's barely comprehensible, and the game's missing features have slowly been added one at a time since it was released in the fall of 2016.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 22 Jan. 2018
  • And the language at times — many times — was so dense, technical and jargon-filled that Clark often stopped to translate it into something comprehensible.
    — Akilah Johnson, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Erratic though the president may sound, the Trumpian worldview is comprehensible.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026

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