| 1. | He has deep intuitions but no comprehensive grasp of life. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | That sacred seer, whose comprehensive view. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | pounds, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonu. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | pre-existing separate songs into one comprehensive whole but n. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | We passed through Alfred Inglethorp's room, and Poirot delayed long enough to make a brief but fairly comprehensive examination of it. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | Persians were the first to take a broad and comprehensive view of history. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |