How to Use unintelligible in a Sentence

unintelligible

adjective

• Ordaz, standing in the street near the front of his car, said something unintelligible to the deputies.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• Four officers pull him through a hole in the roof, and Ramos moans and makes unintelligible sounds.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Though it might have been filled with music—such as the Byzantine liturgy, which was sung there—the words would have been unintelligible.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Unless it is made clear what is meant by the latter, the first remains unintelligible and vague.
  — Vikram Sampath, Quartz India, 20 Aug. 2019
• While the voices in the clip are speaking English, most of it is unintelligible.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2021
• The woman could be heard yelling in the background, her words unintelligible.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• The lyrics are unintelligible and the backing track is the definition of dull.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The arena fills with the static screech of a girl’s almost unintelligible screams.
  — Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
• Notably, the researchers tested the system on people whom it had not been trained on and found that the results were unintelligible.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 3 May 2023
• Due to her stroke, Claire's mother's speech is slurred to such an extent that half her lines are rendered unintelligible.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 22 June 2018
• To the uninitiated, the last section of the board at the bottom left may be no more unintelligible than the rest, but that part, Balzano says, was a drawing by her then 2.5-year-old daughter.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2021
• Zhuang, their bishop, was born in this area and, like them, speaks Hakka, a language that is unintelligible to many Chinese.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• Nichols asks why he was stopped, but there is no apparent answer (large chunks of the video are either silent or unintelligible).
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• Modern physics, to most of us, is unintelligible, but who cares when physics gives us smartphones and hydrogen bombs?
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 July 2022
• On the whole, Wheeler and Chao made a host of unintelligible arguments.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• But a nasal fistula—a hole between his nose and mouth—made his speech garbled and unintelligible.
  — Dave Eshleman, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2024
• But the English accents and olde world-isms (thee, thou etc.) were almost unintelligible.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The researchers filtered out the high frequencies of the sound clips, which essentially rendered the clips unintelligible but left the tone of voice intact.
  — al, 19 July 2021
• The gallery is filled with an a cappella song, written and sung by Gates, that resembles a hymn but is largely unintelligible.
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• Even among those who can read lips, 30 percent of the English language is unintelligible through lip-reading, meaning many words can be missed.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2017
• Even if the data is encrypted and unintelligible—as the recordings from all major smart speakers are—it can be tracked or saved for later.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2017
• Several accounts have also claimed to use audio isolation to prove an unintelligible shout in the video is warning the teen about a fin in the water.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
• The man was approached by South by Southwest venue staff after falling asleep with his legs propped up and yelled something unintelligible in response.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• Who would have ever guessed that the biggest talking point of the Mariners’ season so far would be a novelty song with largely unintelligible lyrics that was written in 1955?
  — Larry Stone, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2022
• Pop fans have no problem listening to loud music in which the words to songs are unintelligible — just disembodied words or vocal sounds and a strong beat.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Most of the drawings are unintelligible, but there are a few recognizable scenes.
  — Nomaan Merchant, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2018
• There has been no election by the people [unintelligible] since 2007.
  — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Jan. 2024
• The victim, police say, opened the door and found 53-year-old James Bowers there sweating heavily and speaking unintelligible words.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• But the rawer, unintelligible version of the voice mail that played in the courtroom is almost frightening in its echoing indistinctness.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• A number of top donors have expressed dismay and doubt after Biden sounded unintelligible in parts, appeared tired and seemed unprepared for obvious questions.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024