How to Use indecipherable in a Sentence

indecipherable

adjective

• His handwriting is almost indecipherable.
• The fuzzy lunar feed was almost indecipherable on the small TV placed in the back of the empty theater.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
• The notes can be as indecipherable and compelling as the songs themselves.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• There’s English and then there’s the language my daughters speak, which is as indecipherable to me as the sounds of a rotary motor.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
• First of all, many of the shapes are indecipherable: There’s a cookie that looks like it was supposed to be a star covered in a hodgepodge of green and red frosting.
  — Tess Kornfeld, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2017
• As the storm first gathered strength in the Gulf of Mexico, its future path was indecipherable.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• There are only so many of those charts that start with enormous E’s which shrink and retreat down to an indecipherable mass of squiggles.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
• My son was using maple syrup to trace an indecipherable design on the kitchen table.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Many of the labels aren’t in English, or the English is misspelled or indecipherable.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The indecipherable chanting in the background sounded like roars from the bleachers.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 13 May 2023
• Just a lot of shouting and crying and indecipherable tongues.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Famously, there was a white object at a food stand in the old game that was indecipherable to the naked eye, and the design documents revealed that piece of art in the game to be heads of garlic.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
• The second-largest comeback in this nationwide event of adored nonsense might have to go down as one of those matters of sports indecipherable to the human mind.
  — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The sentences, scrawled in his crabbed, indecipherable script, bend back on themselves, going nowhere.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• As of April 22, that is 11 straight days of essentially indecipherable Taylor Swift clues, and enough is enough.
  — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 23 Apr. 2019
• With an officer still on top of him, Timpa’s pleas fade to indecipherable grunts.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• And as the material — dense and indecipherable to math-avoiders like me — washes over him, Jack Duffy-Protentis nods and then smiles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Without the benefit of distance and height, the giant was indecipherable, reduced to bare lines and patches of chalk.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• Even small circuits built, or evolved, in this way are nearly indecipherable.
  — Mark Changizi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
• Less expected was a whole host of messages full of indecipherable hexes, pictures of demons, and cursed images of all kinds.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
• To those like me, who have never been involved in maritime culture, the language of the Shipping Forecast can be indecipherable.
  — Grace Linden, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The menu has pictures and descriptions of the dim sum options, many of which are otherwise indecipherable to firsttimers.
  — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
• The indecipherable red and white blotches were placed seemingly at random and, coupled with the contrasting shades of blue made for a god-awful mess.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2019
• One list dated back 27 years; others were marked by hand or indecipherable.
  — Raoul Rañoa, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• To the listeners, the pattern was indecipherable, but somehow the experience of hearing those two notes oscillating in the air moved many in the crowd to tears.
  — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• These young users, aged 18 to 25, are tapped into the latest linguistic trends and can sometimes speak a language that is indecipherable to a person even a few years older.
  — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 6 Dec. 2019
• Singer Jim James’ haunted, down from the holler falsetto was sometimes indecipherable.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The source of the crowd’s discontent remains unclear, though perhaps they were underwhelmed by the indecipherable Rams takeover of the Hollywood sign.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Her criticisms of Trump were so muted as to be almost indecipherable.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024