Example sentences for: uncomprehending

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

  • While waiting for my wife in the reception room, I saw a dapper little old fellow approach the information desk and attempt in Russian to get directions from the uncomprehending woman in attendance there behind a sign in several languages, including Tagalog—but not Yiddish.

  • But reviving Shylock--without a trace of historical awareness--to amuse uncomprehending children seems obviously vicious rather than funny.

  • It's me waterworks, doctor, a patient suffering from some disorder of the urinary tract would complain to an uncomprehending physician who thought he had been mistaken for a plumber.

  • "Why did we shed our blood," he asks an uncomprehending scientific Puritan, "if I can't dance to my heart's content?"

  • I've never seen a more vivid distillation of rock's allure than the scene in which he reverently opens the new Brian Slade album--its centerfold image is a lithe, naked, green-tinged Maxwell Demon--slips the vinyl out of its paper jacket and, after gingerly setting the LP on the turntable, props a chair under the doorknob to keep the uncomprehending world at bay.


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