Example sentences for: garbled

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

  • During the early 1980s, sensationalist journalism, combining true-crime stories with garbled statistics, convinced much of the public that America is a nation where vast numbers of children are snatched from their happy families by mysterious strangers every year.

  • .. garbled the Council.”

  • 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.

  • While the NP crowd may have engaged in some garbled logic, they were nonetheless onto something--namely, businessmen were telling them tales of a "productivity revolution," and even if the data didn't show any evidence of that revolution, they felt sure that somehow growth was going to accelerate.

  • Indeed, the whole "New Economy" doctrine--a doctrine relentlessly espoused by his magazine for the last few years and vociferously defended in a recent signed essay by Shepard himself--is based on a misunderstanding of the relationship between measurement and reality that is conceptually identical to the garbled thinking of the imaginary editor retrieving his car.


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