Example sentences for: gibberish

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

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • Webster's New World gives this: meaningless syllables that seem to make sense; gibberish.

  • He strums listlessly in this ponderous 11 ½ minute version of "." The gibberish about Einstein sniffing drainpipes just reminds you that he was stoned senseless.

  • The form (which I obtained) was downright gibberish, corresponding to no idiom on earth.

  • A moderately noisy phone line would render messages as unintelligible gibberish (even those messages that did not start out that way!)


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