How to Use incomprehensible in a Sentence

incomprehensible

adjective
  • It's incomprehensible to me that he could have acted that way.
  • I found his behavior utterly incomprehensible.
  • All of us who loved her have had to find a way to make peace with her incomprehensible choice.
    — Liz McNeil, People.com, 3 June 2025
  • The world changed in ways that now seem incomprehensible to me.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
  • To know that this guy is still involved in that gym after all of this is incomprehensible.
    — Scott M. Reid, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
  • The story is now so bogged down as to be incomprehensible.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The city many of them saw now was an incomprehensible horror.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • Babies in strollers napped or looked wide-eyed at the incomprehensible scene.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • And many of the adult claims against young activists seem incomprehensible.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
  • Shock, grief, and a feeling of incomprehensible loss washed over him.
    — Joe Ward, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The plot of this movie—which is incomprehensible, by the way—revolves around them, after all.
    — The New Republic Staff, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
  • To think that our caregivers were the victims is just incomprehensible to me.
    — Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
  • The incomprehensible war with Iran was the last straw.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Above me, in the dim vault of the heavens, shone an incomprehensible object.
    — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
  • Plan, plan, plan An iron-distance triathlon is incomprehensible, just as a marathon was at one time.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
  • To be told that you must be resigned to being murdered in school should feel incomprehensible.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
  • For many people in the depths of grief, that advice might feel incomprehensible, like no way forward at all.
    — Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
  • That's an almost incomprehensible amount of children of which to keep track.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2023
  • All films relate to their place and time, but some are nearly incomprehensible out of context.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
  • Yet the report was incomprehensible because Mueller seems to hate plain speech and thinks like a lawyer.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 31 May 2019
  • Then the incomprehensible happened, and the light of their hopes was consumed by darkness.
    — Michael Bradley, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • To make a lunge like that, with his studs up, seemed incomprehensible, never mind dangerous.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • What was over the hill was unknown and what went on behind a nation's borders was incomprehensible.
    — David Szondy may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
  • That meant no more two-year contracts, no more roaming fees, no more incomprehensible charges at the bottom of every bill.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Over and over, the women search for the most precise phrases, language that will make sense of the incomprehensible.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Other lots might be incomprehensible to an audience not steeped in the sport of cricket.
    — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The plague of mass shootings in the country has now reached an almost incomprehensible moment.
    — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • His offer—ceding his right of way to let my car turn left ahead of him—is a kind one that is entirely incomprehensible to my driver.
    — Alex Davies, Wired, 5 May 2020
  • These are gutting, incomprehensible losses for the family and friends of those who died and for the nation as a whole.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Modernism is often accused of being cool and incomprehensible to the man or woman on the street.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018

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