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How to use the word comprehensible in a Sentence?

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The decision of the High Election Board to annul the local election in Istanbul and order a re-run is in our view not transparent and not comprehensible.

– Heiko Maas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's beyond comprehensible how he does it.

– Lea Tarnowski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not normal that a big company boss is the first to jump ship. Mr Combes led a merger of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia that we supported, so it is neither comprehensible nor acceptable that Mr Combes has decided today to leave the company when the transaction hasn't even been completed, both morally and in terms of the proper functioning of the company.

– French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So it is neither comprehensible nor acceptable that Mr Combes has decided today to leave the company when the transaction hasn't even been completed, both morally and in terms of the proper functioning of the company.

– French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

– Queen Victoria

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

– Albert Schweitzer

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14 years ago

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

– Albert Einstein

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14 years ago

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

– Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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14 years ago

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