How to Use decode in a Sentence

decode

verb

• I'm trying to decode the expression on her face.
• Readers can easily decode the novel's imagery.
• The box decodes the digital signal for your CD player.
• And while his name sounds meaningful, it isn’t easily decoded.
  — Debra Granik, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Our experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute decode the two platforms.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2018
• As fans continue to decode the album for clues, the pop star has been reveling in the release day fun and was spotted literally letting her hair down for the occasion.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
• The outfit-decoding machine has gone into high gear multiple times before, including even before Trump got into office.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 22 June 2018
• Stephen Colbert is prepared to decode Melania Trump’s fashion after her eyebrow-raising wardrobe debacle last week.
  — Erin Ben-Moche, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
• But Parker is carrying another instrument that could prove invaluable in decoding the sun: simple cameras.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2018
• An Amazon Echo is connected to a laptop, with a webcam (and some back-end machine learning software) decoding Singh’s gestures in text and speech.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 24 July 2018
• This isn’t to say Shanahan doesn’t employ switch releases or ghost action, or that McVay doesn’t use motion and formation wrinkles to decode a defense.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 18 June 2018
• Reading is a tool for the brothers to help decode the world around them.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• The time required to decode a genome has plunged to days rather than years or months.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• In the end, teams use the rings to decode a word puzzle, and whoever solves it fastest, wins.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• The team's staff and players would sit in front of the monitor and attempt to decode the signals on the screen.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• Their efforts have decoded around 5% of the first scroll.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
• The runner would decode the catcher's sign and signal the batter.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
• The runner would decode the catcher’s sign and signal the batter.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• This is phonics, a way of learning to read in which children are taught to decode words.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• There are just so many things that can muddle our ability to decode the signs of love.
  — Serena Coady, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2024
• The team went on to decode and exploit the car’s computer software.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Here's a guide to decoding if the wound on your skin has become infected and ways to treat it.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 14 July 2023
• The New York office had already decoded a few lines of the letter.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• The next step in smelling is to decode those chemical messages.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
• Then all that’s left is to locate a bird translator to decode them.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• My mom could decode all the plaques in elevators—not by touch, but by sight.
  — Lisa Solomon, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
• But the truly faithful still have some work ahead, in trying to decode what or who is the subject of each of the 16 songs (plus four bonus tracks).
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
• Board members and corporate execs don’t need AI to decode the lessons to be learned from this.
  — Glenn Gow, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2023
• Every time Taylor Swift hits the red carpet, the Internet gets down to decoding her looks, head to toe.
  — Brittany Talarico, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
• The output from the arrays is sent to the decoding software, which matches them to phonemes, combines the phoneme sequences into words and, from there, builds sentences.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024