Sample Sentences forintelligible (auto-selected)
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Our illegal radio, turned too low to be intelligible, was broadcasting the news.† (source)
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"They won't let me talk," Lucien mumbled, barely intelligible.† (source)
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They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.† (source)
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Neither my smartphone nor laptop would load any webpages, or at least not anything intelligible.† (source)
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My mouth opens, but no intelligible sound comes out.† (source)
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The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men reached the bank.† (source)
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(His voice sinks to an unintelligible mumble, over which rises the gabbling voice of Mrs. Soames) Mrs. Soames. (source)unintelligible = not capable of being understoodstandard prefix: 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.
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It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.† (source)
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They talked, cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligibly means not and reverses the meaning of intelligibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Buz brought out, just intelligibly, "You weren't astonizzhed when I told you about burying a girl in feathers, or pouring syrup over them—"† (source)
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I began to think he had disappeared inside this wailing noise and if I could join him in his lost and suspended place we might together perform some reckless wonder of intelligibility.† (source)
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Mary utters something unintelligible, staring at Abigail, who keeps watching the "bird" above.† (source)
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"Yes, they're great," Denny said, and Stem chimed in with a not-quite-intelligible murmur.† (source)
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He spoke unintelligibly of the sacrifices he had made on Billy's behalf.† (source)
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Or the horse itself, a white and beautiful one, was on its way over, approaching to ask some favor of him, a request called softly and intelligibly upward-which he was not decided yet whether to grant or deny.† (source)
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Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr. Casaubon had not interested himself.† (source)
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