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.
• But for now, the quest to decode the human brain continues.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2018
• Part of the fun of your band has been its ability to be obsessed over and decoded.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2018
• When the human genome was first decoded, the hopes for a quick medical payoff were high.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• Only with legal warrants could the keys be retrieved and then used to decode encrypted data.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Their solution: encryption that even the companies themselves could not decode.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Besides helping new parents decode an infant’s needs, the test changed adoption practices by allowing physicians to quickly gauge a baby’s health.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• John Sulston was a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome.
  — kansascity, 10 Mar. 2018
• The vision of maturation as a journey to DGAF kookiness may help decode vexing new albums by two former young guns of rock.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2018
• The need for Comey to decode himself and his decisions seemed to matter more to attendees than the details about Trump, about whether the president obstructed justice, or about the pee tape.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 20 Apr. 2018
• Reading is a tool for the brothers to help decode the world around them.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• In the decades since, few people have bothered to learn how to decode the notes.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• 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.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• The runner would decode the catcher's sign and signal the batter.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 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
• As Gamache races to decode an unsettling break-in, a cryptic note, and a hit-and-run, a massive threat lurks.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• Between endless diaper changes and decoding all of the various cries, adjusting to life as new parents is exhausting, to say the least.
  — Alex Vance, Parents, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024