How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

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  • The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
  • Now is not the time to be valuing speed at the cost of comprehension.
    — Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
  • The only thing was maybe her comprehension of plays and teaching her that and the why of things.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The back and forth in this match is beyond comprehension.
    — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
  • In other words, the gap in comprehension wasn’t a gap in skills.
    — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 9 July 2019
  • For all my comprehension the course book may as well be on patent law.
    — Cheryl Jarvis, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • From there, the effort both teams gave to keep the ball off the floor was beyond comprehension.
    — Jacob Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But the way her mom was stolen from her defies comprehension.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Can some kind of real comprehension of the world emerge through that prison house of language?
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The paper points out that there are two schools of thought about how to teach reading comprehension.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The gushing is more likely to boost his ego than his comprehension.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The scenes of rage, violence and agony are so vast that the whole of it may still be beyond comprehension.
    — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • For one kid to take them away from their life and parents is beyond our comprehension.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In the case of the cosmos the timescale is well beyond our very short lifetimes or even beyond our comprehension.
    — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
  • But his recent comments reveal his lack of comprehension about the scope of what the players want to change.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • Her hearing might be fine, but her own comprehension seems to be faulty.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a bit of a change from season one to season two in the level of comprehension of the character.
    — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
  • How does the confusion shape their comprehension of things around them?
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Tap the start and finish buttons to time your reading comprehension.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • That comprehension ranges from wind to music and beyond.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The drug is potent almost beyond comprehension — and that’s what changes the game.
    — Fortune, 6 June 2018
  • Is comprehension the same whether a person reads a text onscreen or on paper?
    — Naomi S. Baron, The Conversation, 3 May 2021
  • The world is filled with such incidents that are beyond our comprehension.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Hudson is in the eighth grade, but his reading comprehension lags about four years behind.
    — Kerry Cromwell, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2018
  • The Eighth stands out for its utter excess of love, the force beyond comprehension.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The Broncos had to be creative beyond comprehension to blow that one.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The thought of that phone call — that your child is the victim in a mass shooting — is beyond comprehension as a human being.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • Fowler found her own way, trying to teach comprehension skills through texts that could infuse more joy into the process than those in the basal reader.
    — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • These tasks might be above their level of ability and comprehension.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 24 July 2023
  • What’s up next for the Celtics is almost beyond comprehension.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 11 May 2018

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