Sentence examples for can you apprehend from inspiring English sources

By carnal, I mean, Can you apprehend it through the five senses?

Only when you emerge into open space at the south end of the roof can you apprehend the sculpture in its entropic, towering glory.

"When I put the land under my special protection, and all the fifty stars sang for joy, did you apprehend the song, or can you say what it was?

If you love a demanding task, one that requires both discipline and talent — shooting hoops, playing drums, writing code — you eventually discover an innate boundary: you can apprehend real virtuosity, especially as it's used to best you, but you can't quite incorporate it.

One quality of a great designer (and even a few mediocre designers) is that you can apprehend in a second what they stand for: Dior (belle époque romance), Saint Laurent (a sharp shoulder), Armani (the unconstructed jacket), Norell (sequined mermaids).

Can material minds can apprehend immaterial truth?

Take Chomsky's sole entry in Bartlett's Quotations, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"; even if you don't know what it means, you can still immediately apprehend that the sentence is grammatical, whereas "green furiously ideas colorless sleep" is not.

"There's really a sense now that you can be apprehended at any time," he said.

Moreover, we can only apprehend the world through language.

Working with law enforcement, the victims and their counselors can help apprehend and punish the traffickers.

Sometimes we can only apprehend these truths through story – and Grossman, like Dovaleh, has become a master of the truth-telling tale.