Sentence examples for was unable to comprehend from inspiring English sources
He was unable to comprehend that by relaying his friends' conversations he caused offence.
He regarded the bloody outrages of the Nazis and their predecessors as the thoughtless actions of unbalanced minds; he was unable to comprehend the nature of National Socialism and remained powerless to prevent its seizure of power.
That is a question implicity raised by Microsoft, which in its federal antitrust appeal has contended that the trial it lost was so technical and esoteric that the presiding judge was unable to comprehend the facts.
The 25-year-old fan Elio Di Cristofalo was unable to comprehend the transfer, throwing himself under a train having left a suicide note that said: "Addio… I don't even know why I am still alive.
As the bullets flew, and on the brink of a disaster that he himself had helped to initiate but was unable to comprehend, he greeted a bemused fellow officer with a quote from Sir Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake": "One blast upon your bugle horn/ is worth a thousand men".
The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
The former are unable to comprehend, much less celebrate, the latter's triumph.
Paul Goodman, the former Tory MP, now editor of ConservativeHome website, said he had been unable to comprehend what was happening.
It's like they're unable to comprehend we are literally dropping thousands of bombs in Iraq and Syria per month right now, and the numbers continue to go up.
They may also be unable to comprehend the meaning of spoken or written language, so that normal speech sounds like a foreign tongue.
Many of my friends and undoubtedly many strangers were unable to comprehend that I'd sent such an email to this bastion of prestige and privilege.
