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.
• 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
• Your first step is to decode what may be causing the pain (check!).
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• 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
• But for now, the quest to decode the human brain continues.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2018
• But the Astros decoded something in the pitch in Game 7.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Part of the fun of your band has been its ability to be obsessed over and decoded.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Riesman’s theory is that the fun was not so much in seeing who won, but in trying to decode the why.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• But species is just the beginning of decoding the label.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2024
• Stine has penned a compelling novel about love and a world decoded with new language.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Additionally, the company encouraged the industry to look to consumer behavior to decode the true drivers of counterfeit purchases.
  — Alexandra Pastore, WWD, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025