Sentence examples for comprehension at from inspiring English sources

Or was there some more mysterious emotional comprehension at work here?

That it is gaining in popularity defies comprehension, at least to some people.

While he can speak rudimentary English — he rates his comprehension at 30 percent — he conducts nearly his entire life in Chinese.

Boosted by knowledge of their "rights" – basically, that "no means no" which of course it does – they fall into gutters, inebriated beyond comprehension at 3am, wearing next to nothing, and are amazed should assault occur.

The school children must, therefore, have been surprised the other day when the s me phrase popped up in President Eisenhower's address to the U.N. "The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the extent of this development," he said.

Louis Walsh might have looked like a spare wheel at times – like a bewildered old man sitting on the end of the judging table, trying to mask his utter lack of comprehension at all the sounds and colours whizzing before his eyes by repeating the same three platitudes over and over again – but he's always been The X Factor's secret weapon.

Director Can Evrenol fashions his seventh circle in tones that Hieronymus Bosch might have found excessively macabre, and reduces his previously braggadocious characters to monosyllabic wrecks, doomed to cry out hopelessly in non-comprehension at their sudden change in fortune.

We examined both word decoding and reading comprehension skills at ages 7 and 12 in addition to later language development at these ages, because literacy skills have been consistently found to be lower in children with a history of language impairment than for children without such a history (Bishop & Snowling, 2004; Kamhi & Catts, 2011).

Those with missing information did not differ from those with complete information in IQ at age 8 (p = 0.8; n = 4,256), but they had higher reading comprehension scores at 26 (p < 0.0001; n = 3,714) and verbal fluency scores at age 53 (p = 0.056; n = 2,949).

As he revealed each audacious but logical chord change, I experienced both shock and comprehension — surprise at something that made perfect sense.

Comprehension, or at least alarm, begins to dawn on the faces of the assembled, because of Arya's provocative remarks and also because their insides are melting.