8 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
capable of being heard
- "It is one as it is," she answered, scarcely audibly.Part Two (60% in)
- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin...Part One (19% in)
- Glancing at his wife and Vronsky, he went up to the lady of the house, and sitting down for a cup of tea, began talking in his deliberate, always audible voice, in his habitual tone of banter, ridiculing someone.Part Two (19% in)
- The sound of the carriage-springs was no longer audible, the bells could scarcely be heard.Part Three (35% in)
- In a little dirty room with the painted panels of its walls filthy with spittle, and conversation audible through the thin partition from the next room, in a stifling atmosphere saturated with impurities, on a bedstead moved away from the wall, there lay covered with a quilt, a body.Part Five (48% in)
- With inaudible steps she went quickly to the sick man's bedside, and going up so that he had not to turn his head, she immediately clasped in her fresh young hand the skeleton of his huge hand, pressed it, and began speaking with that soft eagerness, sympathetic and not jarring, which is peculiar to women.Part Five (50% in)
- In the transparent stillness of morning the smallest sounds were audible.Part Six (35% in)
- He still might have turned her back, but she had reached the door, he was still silent, and the only sound audible was the rustling of the note paper as he turned it.Part Seven (84% in)
There are no more uses of "audible" in Anna Karenina.
Typical Usage
(best examples)