Sample sentences for INTELLIGIBLE

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Definition

capable of being understood

intelligible pronunciation

articulate an intelligible plan
The Director wanted us to feel like we were there, but the dialogue was not intelligible.
(His voice sinks to an unintelligible mumble, over which rises the gabbling voice of Mrs. Soames) Mrs. Soames.
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

unintelligible = not capable of being understood

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

She tried to say something, but it was unintelligible.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

Yet the answer did not seem sensible, intelligible.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Two rapid, deafening bursts of automatic gunfire preceded unintelligible commands over the speakers, shouted in Russian.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

His screams were all the worse for being unintelligible.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

His words were slurred, unintelligible.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

He coloured, and stammered out an unintelligible reply.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

I held my breath and hoped beyond hope for an intelligible answer.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
What are they saying to one another in this unintelligible Kurdish dialect?
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

But that's perfectly intelligible.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
To a savage, the world is a place of unintelligible miracles where anything is possible to inanimate matter and nothing is possible to him.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

The recording was grainy, but still intelligible.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
My voice is ragged and slurry, almost unintelligible.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

She squeezed Carol's hand, said something unintelligible, stumbled up into the vestibule.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

In back was a chalkboard scrawled with foods unintelligible to me: dagsoep, draadjesvlees, kaput ijnerschotel, zuurkoolstamppot.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

Instead he turned his head away into the pillow, and soon he was murmuring his unintelligible scraps.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

—Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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