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Garbled in a sentence
Garbled meaning
difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
Synonyms of Garbled
Using Garbled
- The main meaning on this page is: difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
- Useful related words include: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered.
- In the example corpus, garbled often appears in combinations such as: garbled and, was garbled, be garbled.
Context around Garbled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Garbled
- In this selection, "garbled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, druggy, same, briefly, drawl, yes and phrase stand out and add context to how "garbled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tangled garbled mess and a tortuous garbled and confused. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "garbled" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with garbled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Justice Stephen Breyer’s line was briefly garbled. (8 words)
The audio is garbled with Jason Whittle screaming. (8 words)
Announcement was garbled so no update to share. (8 words)
Farms have been deemed essential businesses during Washington’s stay-at-home order, but the lawsuit claims safety guidelines to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus are “garbled and non-mandatory,” endangering the lives of many. (38 words)
The message on travel advice, and the much maligned 'Green List', was so garbled from government that even the head of Fáilte Ireland ended up in Italy rather than Inis Meáin. (31 words)
He went on to pull a garbled Yes Minister-esque math problem to wonder how many warm clothes, jackets, gloves and oxygen cylinders could be purchased with the aforementioned amount. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
One morning, she woke up and her speech was garbled.
One, two, five or six…maybe you garbled the footnotes.
Everything MacGowan says, incidentally, is subtitled — not because of a thick accent, but because of his druggy, garbled drawl, punctuated by a wheezy hiss of a laugh.
Farms have been deemed essential businesses during Washington’s stay-at-home order, but the lawsuit claims safety guidelines to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus are “garbled and non-mandatory,” endangering the lives of many.
Her words were garbled and she had to repeat herself several times before I understood.
He went on to pull a garbled Yes Minister-esque math problem to wonder how many warm clothes, jackets, gloves and oxygen cylinders could be purchased with the aforementioned amount.
If you search the same garbled phrase as above on Google, you’ll get 65,000 results.
Justice Stephen Breyer’s line was briefly garbled.
The audio is garbled with Jason Whittle screaming.
The camera then quickly cuts to an unknown person, presumably a military officer, digging up the footage while garbled transmissions can be heard in the background.
The message on travel advice, and the much maligned 'Green List', was so garbled from government that even the head of Fáilte Ireland ended up in Italy rather than Inis Meáin.
A few minutes later, a garbled voice came over a loudspeaker announcing the final boarding call for the buses.
Announcement was garbled so no update to share.
In so doing, German legislators produced a tortuous, garbled and confused text whose true core is the equation of anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel’s policy.
It's our annual holiday nightmare, pulling boxes of stringed lights out of storage only to find a tangled, garbled mess.
There are some portions of it where it appears the words are garbled.
He’s on camera calling the shots over the phone, while Peña Nieto is left as a garbled, disembodied voice.
I did ask a few, and got a couple of garbled responses in the affirmative.
If you properly protect your data at rest by encrypting it, then anyone stealing it will end up with lines of garbled junk that they can’t decipher.
In the dismal final episode, a garbled race to the finish line made us feel like losers for sticking with it so long.
Common combinations with garbled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- garbled and 5×
- was garbled 4×
- be garbled 3×
- are garbled 2×
- of garbled 2×
- garbled audio 2×
- or garbled 2×
- garbled version 2×