Example sentences for: garbled

How can you use “garbled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • where the name of the person and most of the message is garbled (because the caller is slurring), but the number is the only understandable part of the message?

  • Coulter's legal scholarship is so repetitious and garbled that it's hard to puzzle out her definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

  • On the evidence of the examples quoted, I also wonder whether it is necessary to construct an artificial sublanguage out of the garbled forms that inevitably arise when a language is used by lazy, slipshod, and semi-literate speakers.

  • Though printed in the traditional Yiddish/ Hebrew alphabet, most of the words were misspelled, as though the writer had never seen a Yiddish dictionary; the syntax was garbled almost beyond recognition; the lexical content made little sense.

  • Tradition mandates that changes are assumed to be technical corrections--to set the record straight, to translate garbled portions, or to sort who said what when more than one person speaks at once.


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