How to Use garble in a Sentence

garble

verb

• When there’s noise in the whale’s water, like a boat sound, some of the whale songs get garbled.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
• But Mr. Sippel is trying to do so many things at once that his point of view gets garbled.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• At one point Justice Stephen Breyer's line was briefly garbled.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020
• Although what is said next is garbled, students can be heard gasping.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Siri often doesn't hear me correctly, so my texts get garbled.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2018
• The not-so-great aspect of the low-tech shows are video conference interviews that get glitchy, as voices get garbled or out of sync, and images freeze up.
  — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
• The accents were not a problem when the actors spoke slowly, but when Rose was excited or angry, her rapid pace garbled some of her lines.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 24 July 2019
• Langyi scores hosts on stage presence and other attributes, and will dock a host’s pay for garbling the name of the happy couple or other infractions.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 16 July 2017
• My father’s words can sometimes be garbled, especially when the hour grows late.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The volume on the radio hadn’t been turned high enough, and communications from the pit were garbled beyond the point of comprehension.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2017
• The outer envelope uses the same strategy to garble the voter’s name.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2016
• Was the syntax so garbled that a target couldn't possibly understand it?
  — CBS News, 13 May 2017
• Researchers now have a more complete picture of how fused, garbled, or incomplete genes can cause malignant cells to grow at multiple sites in the body.
  — Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 20 June 2017
• The recording was garbled at times, the newspaper reported, but a man told the authorities that a woman had fallen into a creek and couldn’t be pulled from the water.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 14 Oct. 2019
• After the connection was garbled several times, the team brought his testimony to a cell phone, which then promptly dropped.
  — William Earl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• But Dersh garbled the point — which also occasionally happens, even to those of us who are not 81 and lack the professor’s vigor.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
• As a result, if something is wrong with a flight attendant's PA, it will be reported to maintenance, whereas the pilots may even not be aware theirs is garbled.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
• The league’s initial response to the Morey fiasco was garbled, vague, and contradictory.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019
• But words are often garbled or obscured by music or other people talking.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• An enthusiast in an English coastal town is trying to get his homemade radio to work, and picking up transmissions from warships in the Channel, garbled voices out of the air.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• After the exhilarating opening, the play begins to sag under the weight of lots of exposition, sometimes garbled by accents that come and go -- from adult and child actors alike.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Noisy environments and interruptions garbled the audio or led to the services transcribing voices of people in the office who weren’t in our meeting.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Texts may be misread, communication could get garbled over the phone, or that work email might accidentally go unsent.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• And, for a long, innocent moment, everything about this arrangement will seem surreal to the black child, distorted, like a message that has somehow been garbled in the delivery.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• Instead, any user whose message was lost or garbled because of a collision would simply try again after a random time interval.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• Slater did not speak English well, his heavy German accent frequently garbling words and making him misunderstood.
  — Sarah Weinman, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
• The message Ms. Merkel probably intended to send — promoting a culture of tolerance and brotherhood — may have been garbled.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• During a 90-minute interview Saturday afternoon, Wexton spoke with difficulty, her words garbled and running together, about her career and plans with help from two staffers, often letting the tears flow.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• Each mathematical language eloquently captures certain aspects of quantum states, but at the price of garbling some other quantum property.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Telephone’ in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive re-tweet.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018

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