Example sentences for: incomprehensible

How can you use “incomprehensible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Norwood's betrayal is more than 50 years old and was conducted in a paranoid Cold War world whose ideological extremism now seems antique and all but incomprehensible."

  • (Or, even if they're not incomprehensible, the media have never succeeded in portraying them in a way that interests the American public.)

  • Away from tourist resorts and shopping areas, rarely will any language be spoken except French and the mystifying Creole patois, which, though based on French, is almost incomprehensible to anyone not used to it — even non-initiated French-speakers.

  • Schoenfeld has an answer to that, and it is a well-known one, having first been set forth in another Commentary essay in 1981 by the great Biblical scholar Robert Alter: The danger with Holocaust Studies is that, in the proliferation of methodologies and agendas, the incomprehensible horror of the event may be lost--eclipsed, as humanity of the Jews was eclipsed, by a fog of categories and subcategories and rhetorical feints at ideological opponents.

  • Once "auction" invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, "Sold American!"


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