How to Use garbled in a Sentence

garbled

adjective

• The guard spoke into his walkie-talkie, and a garbled sound came back out.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Leave aside, for a moment, the garbled metaphors and syrupy language.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 May 2024
• Jackson and his partner didn’t think much of the garbled threat.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2020
• Half awake, Jason’s words came out garbled or too low for anyone to hear.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• But some transmissions were bound to get lost or garbled.
  — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2013
• With each passing day, the signal grew weaker and the sentences more garbled.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• Ahead of the game against Poland on Nov. 22, the audio on the broadcast as the national anthem played sounded garbled and robotic.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• But Baumann's garbled speech prompted Simendinger to drive her to Mercy West.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
• Accents are vague, and lines are garbled and weakly deployed.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Weakness in her right arm and hand left her unable to feed herself, and her speech remained somewhat garbled.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 25 May 2024
• Europeans were grateful to the first President Bush, garbled speech and all.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2021
• Some of the images also featured the Getty watermark, but with garbled text.
  — Matt O'Brien and Arijeta Lajka, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2023
• The whole scheme appears aimed at winning ad revenue from the page views of people who unwittingly land on the site’s garbled content.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• If Smeds had given in, the first — and last — sign of a problem would have been complete silence from Titan, broken only a by a few garbled bits of data.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2017
• For example, a friend of my daughter’s told her that another child at their school had died from the coronavirus, a garbled story that turned out to be false.
  — Jessica Grose, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2021
• Stefani will, toward the end of the film, get her own moment to play narrator, calling upon racist tropes and claims of piety in a brief, garbled attempt at defending herself.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2021
• The gene has been riddled with crippling mutations that prevent it from producing a working protein, like a recipe with missing and garbled steps.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2011
• By all accounts, the Twitter Spaces event was a debacle—the livestream was garbled and chaotic, forcing the campaign to relaunch from a different link, losing half the audience in the process.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 May 2023
• Meanwhile, as in the earlier film, albeit in somewhat more garbled fashion, there are flashbacks to earlier events.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 July 2023
• At the outset, the AI hobbyist decided to ask for the inverse of Marlon Brando, which produced what looked like a garbled tech company logo.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
• That sounds like a garbled version of Max Weber’s highly contestable claims about 17th-century Calvinism.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Lee’s contested and subsequently revised four-week study of one camp in the Kalahari in the 1960s becomes, in Suzman’s garbled rendition, the history of our species.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Wayne didn’t know his son’s school district had been hacked — its files stolen and computers locked up and held for ransom — until last fall when the hackers started emailing him directly with garbled threats.
  — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2022
• Others shared garbled images with distorted facial features or limbs coming out of their heads, an outcome Lensa warns about during the upload process.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
• So, as ever with Bitcoin’s garbled trajectory, who knows?
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 June 2021
• After more than an hour of garbled exchanges and futile attempts at reconnection, Richardson rescheduled the hearing at 2 p.m. Monday.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Four years ago, a little green stop-motion animation creature swept the internet with his garbled renditions of pop songs and passion for slicing garlic.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Returning to the medium where such story formulas had originated was like running text through Google Translate and back: each iteration came out more garbled than the last.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• What becomes routinely lost in this garbled translation is the goals of a demonstration—to disturb and unsettle, to provoke a crisis, to threaten power and compel it to show the violence that sustains it.
  — John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Ruiz and most people in the 10 percent have mutations that leave their CFTR protein too garbled or incomplete to correct with any combination of fixer molecules.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024