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Example sentences for "cannot comprehend"

  • He cannot comprehend my travelling, and thinks I must have some secret mission.

  • How they live in this way I cannot comprehend.

  • Essnousee, like others of his countrymen, cannot comprehend notions of enterprise and discovery in travel.

  • Indeed, there are many points in his character and conduct, since he has been an inmate of the dungeon, which I cannot comprehend.

  • But somehow or another, there is a mystery which I cannot comprehend.

  • There is also another thing I cannot comprehend.

  • I cannot comprehend how it is that he does not make terms, above all in the unfortunate position in which he now finds himself, and without any hope whatever of succour.

  • All these things are obstacles to my believing it a dream; but yet there are so many things that I cannot comprehend, nor ever shall, that I will put my trust in God, who knows all things.

  • You are the first person I have seen, answered the king; and I cannot comprehend how so fine and large a city comes to be without inhabitants.

  • I have not concealed the least incident from you," continued she; "there is something in this business which I cannot comprehend, and which has given occasion for some persons to think me mad.

  • You are the first person I have seen," answered the king, "and I cannot comprehend how so fine and large a city comes to be without inhabitants.

  • All these points are obstacles to my believing it a dream; but there are so many things that I cannot comprehend, nor ever shall, that I will put my trust in God, who knows all things.

  • There is one point however which yet perplexes me; therefore I must beg the favour of you to explain it; that is, I cannot comprehend how it is possible for you to live or move in water without being drowned.

  • If some doctrines are above reason they are beyond its reach, it cannot attain to them; if it cannot attain to them, it cannot comprehend them.

  • A truth is above reason when our mind (or even every created mind) cannot comprehend it.

  • And where is the man who can boast that he has faith--that he is fully convinced of mysteries which he cannot conceive, and wonders which he cannot comprehend?

  • That I cannot comprehend: it is this impossibility to raise the veil, which, by degrees, is undermining and consuming me.

  • But what I cannot comprehend is, why the bees take exactly the same care of the male eggs deposited in royal cells, as of those that should become queens.

  • I cannot comprehend by what means they have been able to make this observation: as they used very thick hives only, with several rows of combs, they could at most but observe the commencement of hostilities.

  • This irregularity depends on something I cannot comprehend.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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