All 5 Uses
audible
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Into Thin Air
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- An exceedingly calm, circumspect man, Groom was pleasant company but seldom spoke unless spoken to and replied to questions tersely, in a barely audible voice.†
Chpt 4 *audible = capable of being heard
- With audible relief, Rob gave us the go-ahead to leave Lobuje in the morning and proceed to Base Camp ourselves.†
Chpt 5
- Ms. O'Dowd walked to the team's Sherpa leader, Ang Dorje, and said audibly: "This is Ken Vernon, one of the told you about.†
Chpt 8audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- I'm fucked," Doug croaked in a barely audible whisper, looking crushed.†
Chpt 9audible = capable of being heard
- In a ragged, barely audible voice, Rob croaked, "Harold was with me last night, but he doesn't seem to be with me now.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In football, the term has come to include an instruction shouted from the line of scrimmage.
Recently, the word is also being used to indicate sounds that could be played on a phone or computer; for example "audibles include creative hellos that can be downloaded."