How to Use incomprehensible in a Sentence

incomprehensible

adjective

• It's incomprehensible to me that he could have acted that way.
• I found his behavior utterly incomprehensible.
• The world changed in ways that now seem incomprehensible to me.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• The plot of this movie—which is incomprehensible, by the way—revolves around them, after all.
  — The New Republic Staff, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
• The amount of plastic in the world is incomprehensible.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
• To think that our caregivers were the victims is just incomprehensible to me.
  — Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
• The rate at which lives were lost was incomprehensible.
  — Emilie Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2022
• The city many of them saw now was an incomprehensible horror.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• For many people in the depths of grief, that advice might feel incomprehensible, like no way forward at all.
  — Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
• Any of these would have been incomprehensible to the first Angelenos, the Tongva.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• At first, the date was written in code: Retail employees had to match each code to a date using a key, but to customers the codes were incomprehensible.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 17 July 2022
• All films relate to their place and time, but some are nearly incomprehensible out of context.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
• That's an almost incomprehensible amount of children of which to keep track.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2023
• Woke discourse is incomprehensible to them, thank the Lord.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Feb. 2023
• But what Julian described as equally incomprehensible is the battle he's been waging with the U.S. government for much of the past year.
  — Mike Levine, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• For far too long, the financial sphere has been incomprehensible to a large portion of the world's population.
  — Dmitry Dolgorukov, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• His body was still in fight-or-flight mode, overwhelmed by the incomprehensible explosion.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
• The fight that Garcelle and Dorit have at the party is completely incomprehensible.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2021
• A day without a friend or a martini is incomprehensible to me.
  — WSJ, 29 Oct. 2021
• The queen’s reign has stretched across a century of almost incomprehensible change.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• People pay to get their tax returns prepared because the 1040 form — and most IRS schedules and forms — are incomprehensible to a normal person.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• The voice was dim, far, quick, strange, often incomprehensible.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• That the person convicted in the crime was Jada's own mother made the crime nearly incomprehensible.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2023
• Each of those films tried to make some narrative sense of a country and conflict that most Americans found incomprehensible.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• More and more tasks become incomprehensible to the worker.
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• This bit of folk wisdom may reassure those who too often find the world incomprehensible.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
• That energy expresses itself in melting ice sheets, in rising seas, in the incomprehensible roar of the wind as a giant storm crashes into a city of steel and glass.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
• If somebody were to do something like that to my daughter — incomprehensible.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• The scenes of carnage and cruelty in Ukraine are incomprehensible.
  — Mark Kimmitt, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• But Maffei claims that the fault isn’t on Live Nation or Ticketmaster, but on the incomprehensible demand.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024