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.
• A monologue at the end, incomprehensible on the page, burns with a certain life on the screen.
  — Stephen L. Carter, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
• 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
• Above me, in the dim vault of the heavens, shone an incomprehensible object.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
• Yet the report was incomprehensible because Mueller seems to hate plain speech and thinks like a lawyer.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 31 May 2019
• Over and over, the women search for the most precise phrases, language that will make sense of the incomprehensible.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2019
• To know that this guy is still involved in that gym after all of this is incomprehensible.
  — Scott M. Reid, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
• The void left in our lives is incomprehensible as a result of the loss of Kevin - a wonderful husband, father and friend to many.
  — Jonece Starr Dunigan | [e-mail], AL.com, 12 May 2017
• To think that our caregivers were the victims is just incomprehensible to me.
  — Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
• Plan, plan, plan An iron-distance triathlon is incomprehensible, just as a marathon was at one time.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
• And many of the adult claims against young activists seem incomprehensible.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
• The rate at which lives were lost was incomprehensible.
  — Emilie Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2022
• Then the incomprehensible happened, and the light of their hopes was consumed by darkness.
  — Michael Bradley, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
• Babies in strollers napped or looked wide-eyed at the incomprehensible scene.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• 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
• These are gutting, incomprehensible losses for the family and friends of those who died and for the nation as a whole.
  — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Any of these would have been incomprehensible to the first Angelenos, the Tongva.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• This is incomprehensible to Zuckerberg and other men of his kind for the same reason fish don’t know what water is.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
• The scene of smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center was incomprehensible.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Em made a big impact in so many people’s lives, and this loss is incomprehensible for anyone who knew her.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Shock, grief, and a feeling of incomprehensible loss washed over him.
  — Joe Ward, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Briefly, because this is pretty much incomprehensible to the average brain, and even more so to a brain such as ours in steep decline.
  — Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2020
• To be told that you must be resigned to being murdered in school should feel incomprehensible.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
• And what Terrence Sr. heard next was even more incomprehensible.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
• The point is to make the whole war seem incomprehensible and dirty, thereby discouraging Western involvement.
  — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024