How to Use garble in a Sentence

garble

verb
  • When there’s noise in the whale’s water, like a boat sound, some of the whale songs get garbled.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • But Mr. Sippel is trying to do so many things at once that his point of view gets garbled.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 22 May 2017
  • At one point Justice Stephen Breyer's line was briefly garbled.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020
  • Although what is said next is garbled, students can be heard gasping.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Siri often doesn't hear me correctly, so my texts get garbled.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2018
  • The not-so-great aspect of the low-tech shows are video conference interviews that get glitchy, as voices get garbled or out of sync, and images freeze up.
    oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The accents were not a problem when the actors spoke slowly, but when Rose was excited or angry, her rapid pace garbled some of her lines.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 24 July 2019
  • Langyi scores hosts on stage presence and other attributes, and will dock a host’s pay for garbling the name of the happy couple or other infractions.
    Chao Deng, WSJ, 16 July 2017
  • My father’s words can sometimes be garbled, especially when the hour grows late.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The volume on the radio hadn’t been turned high enough, and communications from the pit were garbled beyond the point of comprehension.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2017
  • The outer envelope uses the same strategy to garble the voter’s name.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2016
  • Was the syntax so garbled that a target couldn't possibly understand it?
    CBS News, 13 May 2017
  • Researchers now have a more complete picture of how fused, garbled, or incomplete genes can cause malignant cells to grow at multiple sites in the body.
    Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 20 June 2017
  • The recording was garbled at times, the newspaper reported, but a man told the authorities that a woman had fallen into a creek and couldn’t be pulled from the water.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2019
  • After the connection was garbled several times, the team brought his testimony to a cell phone, which then promptly dropped.
    William Earl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But Dersh garbled the point — which also occasionally happens, even to those of us who are not 81 and lack the professor’s vigor.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
  • As a result, if something is wrong with a flight attendant's PA, it will be reported to maintenance, whereas the pilots may even not be aware theirs is garbled.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The league’s initial response to the Morey fiasco was garbled, vague, and contradictory.
    Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But words are often garbled or obscured by music or other people talking.
    Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • An enthusiast in an English coastal town is trying to get his homemade radio to work, and picking up transmissions from warships in the Channel, garbled voices out of the air.
    Tom Shippey, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • After the exhilarating opening, the play begins to sag under the weight of lots of exposition, sometimes garbled by accents that come and go -- from adult and child actors alike.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Noisy environments and interruptions garbled the audio or led to the services transcribing voices of people in the office who weren’t in our meeting.
    Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Texts may be misread, communication could get garbled over the phone, or that work email might accidentally go unsent.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And, for a long, innocent moment, everything about this arrangement will seem surreal to the black child, distorted, like a message that has somehow been garbled in the delivery.
    Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 11 May 2018
  • Instead, any user whose message was lost or garbled because of a collision would simply try again after a random time interval.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Slater did not speak English well, his heavy German accent frequently garbling words and making him misunderstood.
    Sarah Weinman, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
  • The message Ms. Merkel probably intended to send — promoting a culture of tolerance and brotherhood — may have been garbled.
    Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 9 July 2017
  • During a 90-minute interview Saturday afternoon, Wexton spoke with difficulty, her words garbled and running together, about her career and plans with help from two staffers, often letting the tears flow.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Each mathematical language eloquently captures certain aspects of quantum states, but at the price of garbling some other quantum property.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Telephone’ in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive re-tweet.
    Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'garble.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: