uncomprehended
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Last week, as the battle for Burma ran its course, it was still a remote, uncomprehended struggle to most of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
She, at least, ought to have known Wyllys too well to imagine—if she thought of him at all—that the silent by-play would pass unnoticed and uncomprehended by him.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
As it was, even now I began to see dim, shadowy things which, uncomprehended though they were, struck something of a thrill into my blood, and something of a chill, too.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
For she was in fear—of many things known, and things uncomprehended: fear of where she had passed; fear of where she was going; of him!
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
And the tall one was Polichinelle, the image of a gratuitous and uncomprehended wickedness.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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