How to Use unreadable in a Sentence

unreadable

adjective

• In one case, the art turns on words that are unreadable.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• The penalties are spelled out in a font so tiny as To be unreadable.
  — Ishmael Reed, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• To use just one book and make the entire thing unreadable?
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2023
• Your email list took up some of the left-hand side of the screen, while the body text of your emails was obscured and unreadable. Until now.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• The white wall has black, unreadable scribbles all over it.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• And some of it (those transcripts, Jack and Neal high and babbling) is unreadable.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• The serial number on the side of the gun was scratched and unreadable, police said.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2019
• In addition, some (but not all) of the app names are unreadable (black text on a black background) in the app drawer.
  — Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2022
• Police stopped the man’s car because the license plate, in a corner of the rear window, was unreadable.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
• His face was half hidden by his famous beard, his eyes were unreadable, and his voice was soft.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
• The texts may be unreadable to most visitors, but what’s clear is the reverence with which they were made.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• There’s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable, obscure, and self-serving of such memoirs.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2021
• The goal was met, though there were concerns that too many were dirty, outdated or unreadable.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The four were in a truck when a patrolman pulled them over for an unreadable temporary tag.
  — Robert Garrison, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• Halston had the books in his Montauk home shelved spine in, resulting in a uniform, and unreadable, wall of white.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 May 2021
• The sheer magnitude of the book and his treatment of the pages as sculptural material make the book unreadable.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 20 Sep. 2022
• That means the data is unreadable to the chain of companies and providers that exist in the path between you and the recipient.
  — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
• The usual trappings for a State of the Union were all there: The bemedaled four star generals and unreadable black-robed justices.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
• Perhaps the stop sign was marred by graffiti and rather unreadable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• But what about the uncertainty of a faint line that may seem almost unreadable?
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2022
• Because the telemetry was unreadable, experts on the ground could not easily tell what went wrong.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
• Along the way, the message is unreadable, protected from prying eyes.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• Both the content and the worldview expressed in The 120 Days of Sodom make it as close to a repellently unreadable book as has ever been written.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• The spelling was haphazard and the prose almost unreadable, with no paragraph breaks.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2018
• But they were presented so briefly as to be nearly unreadable.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
• Your expression is unreadable, under the straw hat brim in the deep midsummer shade.
  — Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• The excitement of finding something no one else had would go unfelt, or would at least be unreadable.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• The door and center armrests in front feel like hard rubber, the small LCD gauges in the dash are unreadable through polarized sunglasses, and the door pockets are tiny.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• Your own files would struggle to make the transition with you—many would be forever unreadable.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The revolver’s serial number had been ground off and was unreadable.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024