How to Use intelligible in a Sentence

intelligible

adjective
Definition of intelligiblenext
Synonyms for intelligiblenext
  • Very little of the recording was intelligible.
  • Chuck Berry had worked to make each word of that perfect phrase intelligible.
    — Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
  • As words bubbled out of me, not many of them were intelligible to others.
    — Kavita Das, Longreads, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Some of the conversation at the beginning of the audio is not intelligible, but the deputies discuss whether to stop the man at all.
    — Peter Nickeas, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Much like Nick from the show—who has a meltdown while gifting his friend Schmidt a pastry treat—we’ve become less and less intelligible the longer the bit has gone on.
    — Alma Avalle, Bon Appétit, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Then the writers had to solve the challenge of making unfathomable scales of time and change feel intelligible, at least a bit.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • One of the basic challenges facing researchers will be how to process and present their findings in a clear, intelligible way to the public.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Six aluminum plates on the walls, engraved with fragments of not-quite-intelligible text, are filled in with marzipan.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Where might comfort lie and how can purpose be found in an abyss of intelligible meaning?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The objects that people imagine, which are decoded in the same way, are vaguer but still intelligible.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Bennett can move on her own and type with difficulty, but the muscles in her mouth and throat that produce speech no longer work to form intelligible sounds.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Now anyone who could read and count had a neat, perfectly intelligible blank bracket to fill out.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • One of the values at stake in the 2024 election is intelligibility: can the country remain intelligible to itself and to the rest of the world?
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
  • Since the information in its maps would be most intelligible from overhead, it may be missed by most viewers.
    — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Everyone was there to be seen; there was not the slightest pretense about being there to have fun or to have any intelligible exchange with anyone.
    — Walter Hopps, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • Following a car crash and severe stroke at age 20, the man, known as Pancho, lost the ability to produce intelligible speech.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • Utilize that idea in a way that is intelligible to people who have never had any exposure?
    — Dominic Corry, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The most jarring aspect of the Mario film is hearing Mario speak intelligible, complete sentences.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Matt Furie may have an intelligible arc from apathy to upset to pseudo triumph, but Pepe? Pepe’s all over the place.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Even her mockery is on the money, though a few jokes will be intelligible only to music-world initiates.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2022
  • While languages can and do mutate over the centuries, the changes usually become more, not less intelligible.
    — Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 7 Sep. 2021
  • One step that researchers have taken, to positive effect, is to begin patrolling the intelligible parts—the prompts and outputs.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • He was saved by the writings of Carl Jung, which taught that the world was not meaningless but made intelligible by recurring cultural patterns: myths.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 May 2018
  • Journalists were not admitted to the courtroom but were able to watch a video link from a room nearby, with barely intelligible audio.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 19 June 2023
  • In fact, much of the message’s first minute is difficult to comprehend, in part because the voice of the other man in the conversation is muffled and barely intelligible.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Its pedagogy suggests how the past might be reframed and made intelligible.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • That’s far more important than how intelligible its lyrics are.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the summer, the Russians seemed to maintain an intelligible schedule of bombardments.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Andries put on music—flutes and vocals without intelligible words or a beat.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • Early signs that words could become intelligible include a baby babbling as if talking in sentences or combining certain sounds with facial expressions or gestures that indicate a child is trying express a specific frustration or desire.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024

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