How to use "comprehend" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "comprehend" in popular movie and book plots

  • Back in Perth, Sandy cannot comprehend the violent end to her journey.  - Japanese Story
  • Back on the ship, Spock again expresses to Kirk and McCoy his failure to comprehend why sun-worshipping Romans adhere to a concept of peace.  - Bread and Circuses (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • Sid and Jean constantly battle to comprehend the new generation's permissive ways and are usually out-of-touch.  - Bless This House (UK TV series)
  • However, onstage, the characters cannot comprehend each other.  - Translations
  • Fantomex cannot comprehend this and has a mental breakdown.  - X-Force
  • Piel is too young to comprehend the red and white, ovoid interstellar transceiver that Claude hands him.  - Les Maîtres du temps
  • She tries to tell him that his former soldier Bobby is dead, but he doesn't comprehend (thinking she meant Bobby Kennedy).  - Junior Soprano
  • The computer is unable to comprehend that there may be another thing like it, and breaks down.  - Robbie (short story)
  • It his only when insanity takes hold that he begins to comprehend the reality of his predicament: 'There is a pattern emerging.  - Pincher Martin
  • Hiroko shares this with Akiba, unable to comprehend such a letter from her "fiance".  - Love Letter (1995 film)
  • While Kirk and Spock try to comprehend the natives' contradictory actions, Kor orders the executions of two hundred Organians.  - Errand of Mercy
  • Everyone advises Pinky that she has no chance of winning, but something she herself does not fully comprehend makes her go on.  - Pinky (film)
  • Johansen's crew struggled to comprehend the non-Euclidean geometry of the city and accidentally release Cthulhu, resulting in their deaths.  - The Call of Cthulhu
  • Catherine is devoted to her father, however, and too innocent to fully comprehend his mistreatment or the reasons for it.  - The Heiress
  • Curley and Carlson look on, unable to comprehend the subdued mood of the two men.  - Of Mice and Men
  • They allow him, when he wills it, to command the obedience of those who hear and comprehend his words.  - Preacher (comics)

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