Example sentences for: incomprehensible

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

  • Others say it's muddled by poorly demarcated flashbacks and instances of incomprehensible Dutch humor.

  • The technology that shapes the modern world is as incomprehensible to most people as the forces of nature were to a society of hunter-gatherers.

  • Kelly manages to come up with no less than 12 such rules, ranging from the more or less incomprehensible ("Embrace dumb power") to the basically silly ("Follow the free"), all wrapped in trendy rhetoric about living "on the edge of chaos" and all that.

  • 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.

  • Then, the monumentally unsuccessful definition, with a bizarre failure to elucidate-- ignotum per ignotius , explaining the unknown by means of the incomprehensible:


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