947 examples of comprehensions in sentences

You are an old scoffer, I know, and therefore I am not surprised that an account of things above the comprehensions of the vulgar should appear like a fable to you; but, let me tell you, I wanted no ladders, nor an eagle's beak, to transport me thither, for I had wings of my own.

But tell me, missy, did ole Phillis hear you straight, or am she so warped troughout, dat she hot get de right comprehensions?" "What I have told you, you may rely upon; come here in a day or two again, and you shall hear farther.

The repetition of this phrase was perhaps indiscreet, and it caused searchings of heart, as the meaning of it was borne in upon the comprehensions of the least friendly of the citizens.

Jane seemed to me to be increasingly interesting; she was acquiring new subtleties, complexities, and comprehensions, and shedding crudities.

Page averred that the whole affair had always passed his comprehension, "what that ease-loving, vain, indulgent, trivial-minded grandson of Henri Quatre could ever have seen for all those years in that stiff, prim, cold old school-ma'am"

He huddles a new thought on the one before it, before the first has had time to express itself; he sees things or analyses emotions so swiftly and subtly himself that he forgets the slower comprehensions of his readers; he is for analysing things far deeper than the ordinary mind commonly can.

"It is beyond my comprehension," replied the leader in a voice which removed all distrust of him.

It passes comprehension.'

I had glimpses and intimations of the baffling essence of our human lives here, strange, fleeting comprehensions of the eternal wonder and the eternal beauty....

It need not be much or long continued if we start with a fair comprehension of each other.

" Then for the first time the inherent strength of the quietness of the one man as opposed to the obvious quickness and comprehension of the other came into play.

It is usual for the ignorant to call a projector insane, when his schemes exceed the bounds of their shallow comprehensions.

But most of them could have been written about Haman, or Heliogabalus, or King John, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as about poor Louis Napoleon; they bear no trace of any comprehension of his quite interesting aims, and his quite comprehensible contempt for the fat-souled senatorial politicians.

It is simply this; that if Teutonism be used for comprehension it cannot be used for conquest.

Your knowledge of complex human nature isn't nearly as big as your heart, and the Latham set are wholly beyond your ken and comprehension."

"By Jove!" said Deppingham, starting up with a look of horror in his eyes, sudden comprehension rushing down upon him.

The term Syllepsis literally signifies conception, comprehension, or taking-together.

See Luke, xvi, 29. V. Synecdoche, (that is, Comprehension,) is the naming of a part for the whole, or of the whole for a part; as, (1.)

"To stand prompter to a pausing yet ready comprehension.

Synecdoche, (comprehension,) explained.

Reading comprehension test for grades 3 to 8.

He would cease to be a deity and would become one of ourselves were his nature and attributes brought down to the level of our comprehensions.

"No," said the captain, "it could not have been a Rackbird, but who he was, and where he has gone, is beyond my comprehension.

Yea, with what abhorrency would they look upon the bewitching allurements of the purest kind of carnal delights, which flow from the mind's satisfaction in feeding on the poor apprehensions, and groundlessly expected comprehensions of objects, suited to its natural genius and capacity?

"Why, you're duller than you used to be," I thought to myself, and wondered how I could have suspected, in those days, subtle depths and mysterious comprehensions.

947 examples of  comprehensions  in sentences