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Example sentences for "incomprehension"

Lexicographically close words:
incompletely; incompleteness; incomprehensibility; incomprehensible; incomprehensibly; incompressible; inconceivability; inconceivable; inconceivableness; inconceivably
  1. For a moment they stood face to face, the depths of their mutual incomprehension at last bared to each other's angry eyes; then Raymond, his glance travelling past her, pointed to the fragments of paper on the floor.

  2. But she had his own range of allusions, and a great gift of momentary understanding; and he had so long beaten his thoughts out against a blank wall of incomprehension that her sympathy seemed full of insight.

  3. That first knowledge of sorrow, the utter loneliness, the incomprehension that such things could exist in the simplicity of the world!

  4. She welcomed him with all her white teeth, and answering his enquiries by a head-shake of incomprehension led him through the narrow hall into a low firelit drawing-room.

  5. Capoul's impassioned wooing, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing.

  6. At the station Tom and Selwyn were waiting and their puzzled incomprehension was even greater than Madeleine's had been.

  7. Tom took out his handkerchief and wiped his forehead, in his eyes boyish incomprehension of incomprehensible things.

  8. Her lips moved as she looked at him, though he could not hear her say a word; but the expression in her face, half awakened only from the incomprehension of her swoon, was not to be mistaken or resisted.

  9. But our incomprehension is due even more to our ignorance of the strange and devious workings of the German mind.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incomprehension" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.