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  • The goal was met, though there were concerns that too many were dirty, outdated or unreadable.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
  • But Daly nevertheless functions as a kind of key that illustrates the horror of taciturn, unreadable men like Jake, Gary, and Todd.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024

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