How to Use legible in a Sentence

legible

adjective

• The document is not legible.
• The line of the back of the legs became much more legible and the young man grew taller by an inch.
  — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 11 July 2016
• The exact dates of his birth and death were no longer legible.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• But even in that scenario, the small white text was still quite legible.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2022
• The markings appear in block font and are legible up to 20 feet away.
  — Outside Online, 23 June 2022
• Of course, that assumes the work is signed and the signature is legible.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Two of the dog tags found were legible still, including one on which the phone number still worked, the post said.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• Your words don’t always have to be clear, and your face doesn’t always need to be legible.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
• The timestamp on each of the first two pages is not entirely legible.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
• Etched aluminum switches on the steering wheel and dash look great, but are not the most legible.
  — cleveland, 4 July 2020
• At the foot of the grave there are four votive candles, along with messages, still legible.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• The legible signature is a lost art, anyway, in the world of texting and email.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• Now, the grass is green, and most headstones are legible, except for a handful of old ones.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
• The caveat, of course: If your handwriting isn’t fairly legible, the apps won’t work well.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• But the signs of his eventual pivot were legible all along, at least to those who cared to read them.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• There were two lines on the drugstore test stick, but the second was barely legible.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• Her handwriting was legible for the first time in decades.
  — Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• The rules are so tiny as to appear like pin dots, but are legible under the lens of a microscope.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
• Small text is still legible, and graphics still look great).
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
• How much change was truly coming was legible on the pop charts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The place where the writing on the tombstones is most legible is in Buena Vista Park, where they were used to make rain gutters.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• The mural is still legible, but every letter of the piece has been marked with splashes of paint.
  — Robert Scheer, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2020
• According to a report, the license plate had been removed, the VIN was not legible, and the car had been set on fire.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• In doing so, the country has ceased to be legible to Putin and Russians who support him.
  — Amelia Glaser, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
• Toward the end of her life, much of the girl's once-neat handwriting was barely legible.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• Those inequities may often be legible across the shelves of a school library.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• That should make the depths of the sea at least a little more legible to the naval commanders who are trying to plan for present peace and future war.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2021
• The signature on the check was not legible enough for cleveland.com to identify the signer.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2020
• But now, newer AI programs are better at understanding what customers need, searching for the right information, and displaying it in a legible way.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 9 Aug. 2024
• The high degree of difficulty required to make these emotions legible largely through physical expression cannot be overstated.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024