How to Use decipher in a Sentence

decipher

verb

• I couldn't decipher his sloppy handwriting.
• At the end of the night, you’re left trying to decipher one carrier from the next.
  — Addie Morton, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• The first step is to decipher a code etched onto the Reba flag.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• For starters, the orb might have coding flaws that could let a hacker decipher all the iris scans.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 July 2023
• Both men laughed heartily and said things that were hard to decipher on the recording.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• The pull of tides and the sway of nature were easier to decipher than the riddle within.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
• Seales has been working on techniques to decipher the scrolls for over 20 years.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Lula has to decipher this silence and bring the military to his side.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Teachers asked students to look at a picture to help decipher words or think about the story plot.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
• The recordings are also a bit difficult to decipher, as they are listed by day/time and channel, not by the name of the show.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
• The difference is hard to decipher when the bills come due, which happens faster than usual under the new league rules.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 15 July 2023
• Use the accompanying cards to help decipher what's what — and learn a few fun facts about each species.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 13 Feb. 2023
• Simone's husband's net worth is a bit hard to decipher.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• Here’s what to look for when deciphering between elk vs deer.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the hieroglyphs around the center of the stone, including the date it would have been used, are difficult to decipher.
  — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• For the last eight years, the group has employed machine-learning tools to decipher what the U.S. government wants to keep us from knowing, and why.
  — Brian Hochman, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• What to Consider: Some of the colors are very similar and can be hard to decipher.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
• To the denizens of BookTok, James’ inability to decipher the symbols that give meaning to the world seems like a witch’s fairy tale curse.
  — Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Some keys to the game: stopping the Zags in transition, deciphering their 2-3 zone and defending Ike in the low post.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Color and Coat The easiest way to decipher between the color.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Engineers will now have to decipher what went wrong on both the booster and the upper-stage spacecraft, make fixes and then try again.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Like in the bat study and computer vision, which analyzes imagery, to decipher both the sounds and the wiggles of bee chatter.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• But for those who are homeless, like Ragland, expressions of love are sometimes hard to decipher.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• Zhang said that one of the biggest challenges has been trying to decipher inputs from users who aren’t used to writing proper AI prompts.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Her friend couldn’t decipher the Swedish instructions on her phone.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• But at this point in the show, guests have just finished biting into some of the hottest wings on their plate, making the questions just a tad bit more difficult to decipher.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• Enlarge / Text from one of the Herculaneum scrolls has been deciphered.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• Exposure to the wrong words is corrupting our children, who aren’t even learning how to decipher the right ones.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Applying the rule doesn’t ask the referee to decipher intent.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• But this side-on view hides the galaxy’s structure and prevents astronomers deciphering the shape of our home galaxy.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024