How to Use decode in a Sentence

decode

verb

• I'm trying to decode the expression on her face.
• Readers can easily decode the novel's imagery.
• The box decodes the digital signal for your CD player.
• The time required to decode a genome has plunged to days rather than years or months.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• In the end, teams use the rings to decode a word puzzle, and whoever solves it fastest, wins.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• The team's staff and players would sit in front of the monitor and attempt to decode the signals on the screen.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• Their efforts have decoded around 5% of the first scroll.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
• The team went on to decode and exploit the car’s computer software.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Here's a guide to decoding if the wound on your skin has become infected and ways to treat it.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 14 July 2023
• Then all that’s left is to locate a bird translator to decode them.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• My mom could decode all the plaques in elevators—not by touch, but by sight.
  — Lisa Solomon, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
• Board members and corporate execs don’t need AI to decode the lessons to be learned from this.
  — Glenn Gow, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2023
• Riesman’s theory is that the fun was not so much in seeing who won, but in trying to decode the why.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• But species is just the beginning of decoding the label.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2024
• Barnett, an avid surfer and diver, spent a lot of time trying to decode what nature was telling him.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
• Since the album's release on May 20, fans all around the world have tried to decode and decipher the meaning behind each song’s lyrics.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 13 July 2022
• The kids will be excited to put their heads together to decode the answers to these tricky questions.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 1 Sep. 2022
• This is the premise of Crime Scene Kitchen which has bakers from around the country using their sleuthing skills to decode a recipe and then recreate it for judges to consume.
  — Anne Easton, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Not a great skier himself, Mailer is trying to decode the secret of the skier’s drive.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• These unanswered questions point us in the direction of how to decode alien language.
  — Arik Kershenbaum, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
• Your older child will decode the Santa story first and might choose to maintain the mystery for the younger child’s enjoyment.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Your older child will decode the Santa story first, and might choose to maintain the mystery for the younger child’s enjoyment.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• But the chess community set out to decode his message and came to the conclusion that Carlsen thinks Niemann is a cheater.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• But researchers still don’t know exactly how the bee’s hive mates decode its message.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• Prior to the reveal, Rodrigo let fans decode a bevy of clues about the song titles in a cryptic teaser video.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2023
• Here, too, the decoding model captured the gist of the unspoken version.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• But was there enough detail in that signal for a computer to decode the intended move?
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
• In England, Champollion's main rival in the race to decode the slab focused his efforts on the demotic section of the stone.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• For many of her students, the face-to-face conversations with strangers are more nerve-racking than decoding Chaucer.
  — Tara Weiss, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
• In many public schools, kids learn to read by guessing words using context clues, rather than by decoding the sounds of letters.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024