undecipherable
Example Sentences
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It was an undecipherable crackle, and he suspected Flock had hung vinyl sheets on windows to defeat eavesdropping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
When you find an item, the usual text box identifying it may include a series of undecipherable characters.
From The Verge ● Mar. 16, 2022
This sentence reads smoothly enough today, but back before March 2020, it would have been mostly undecipherable.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
Guterson refuses “to intimate clarity where none indeed exists ….” Either way, this poem alludes to our fear of the undecipherable.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
The actual headstone was covered in green and yellow lichen, and so worn and faded as to almost be undecipherable, but the rubbing was clear.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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