Example Sentences

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He may also be rushing through the text and not monitoring his own comprehensions.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2021

Reed and Wooten will be tasked with improving hitters’ comprehensions of technology-driven approaches and overseeing new catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s resurgence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Its strength must come from the uttermost parts of the land and must be compounded of brains and comprehensions of every sort.

From President Wilson's Addresses by Harper, George McLean

Who knows what sympathies, what comprehensions, what exquisite friendships, were blossoming out there in the dark house like a garden, waiting to be gathered?

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

Abdu’l-Bahá says:— The Prophets acknowledge that education hath a great effect upon the human race, but They declare that minds and comprehensions are originally different.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)