How to Use indecipherable in a Sentence
indecipherable
adjective- His handwriting is almost indecipherable.
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The fuzzy lunar feed was almost indecipherable on the small TV placed in the back of the empty theater.
—Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
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The notes can be as indecipherable and compelling as the songs themselves.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
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There’s English and then there’s the language my daughters speak, which is as indecipherable to me as the sounds of a rotary motor.
—Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
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First of all, many of the shapes are indecipherable: There’s a cookie that looks like it was supposed to be a star covered in a hodgepodge of green and red frosting.
—Tess Kornfeld, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2017
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As the storm first gathered strength in the Gulf of Mexico, its future path was indecipherable.
—Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
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There are only so many of those charts that start with enormous E’s which shrink and retreat down to an indecipherable mass of squiggles.
—Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
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My son was using maple syrup to trace an indecipherable design on the kitchen table.
—Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
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Many of the labels aren’t in English, or the English is misspelled or indecipherable.
—Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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The indecipherable chanting in the background sounded like roars from the bleachers.
—Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 13 May 2023
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Just a lot of shouting and crying and indecipherable tongues.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
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The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
—Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
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Famously, there was a white object at a food stand in the old game that was indecipherable to the naked eye, and the design documents revealed that piece of art in the game to be heads of garlic.
—Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
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The second-largest comeback in this nationwide event of adored nonsense might have to go down as one of those matters of sports indecipherable to the human mind.
—Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
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The sentences, scrawled in his crabbed, indecipherable script, bend back on themselves, going nowhere.
—Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
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As of April 22, that is 11 straight days of essentially indecipherable Taylor Swift clues, and enough is enough.
—Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 23 Apr. 2019
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With an officer still on top of him, Timpa’s pleas fade to indecipherable grunts.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
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And as the material — dense and indecipherable to math-avoiders like me — washes over him, Jack Duffy-Protentis nods and then smiles.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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Without the benefit of distance and height, the giant was indecipherable, reduced to bare lines and patches of chalk.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
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Even small circuits built, or evolved, in this way are nearly indecipherable.
—Mark Changizi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
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Less expected was a whole host of messages full of indecipherable hexes, pictures of demons, and cursed images of all kinds.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
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To those like me, who have never been involved in maritime culture, the language of the Shipping Forecast can be indecipherable.
—Grace Linden, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
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The menu has pictures and descriptions of the dim sum options, many of which are otherwise indecipherable to firsttimers.
—Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
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The indecipherable red and white blotches were placed seemingly at random and, coupled with the contrasting shades of blue made for a god-awful mess.
—SI.com, 3 July 2019
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One list dated back 27 years; others were marked by hand or indecipherable.
—Raoul Rañoa, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
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To the listeners, the pattern was indecipherable, but somehow the experience of hearing those two notes oscillating in the air moved many in the crowd to tears.
—Steven Johnson, New York Times, 28 June 2017
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These young users, aged 18 to 25, are tapped into the latest linguistic trends and can sometimes speak a language that is indecipherable to a person even a few years older.
—Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 6 Dec. 2019
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Singer Jim James’ haunted, down from the holler falsetto was sometimes indecipherable.
—Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
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The source of the crowd’s discontent remains unclear, though perhaps they were underwhelmed by the indecipherable Rams takeover of the Hollywood sign.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
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Her criticisms of Trump were so muted as to be almost indecipherable.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
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