indecipherable

Example Sentences

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The highway sign was nearly indecipherable beneath layers of stickers and graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The defining complaint about the sacked Dutchman was that after two-and-a-bit seasons the football was still formless and the tactical direction indecipherable.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

You can do that through cheap tricks, or you can see that, despite the importance of place and the deep meaning rural people have in particular, their concerns, anxieties, and hopes are not indecipherable.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024

Melquíades was in the corner seated at the desk scribbling indecipherable signs.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez