garbled

How To Use garbled In A Sentence

• He told the inquest the message was garbled and he couldn't understand any of it.
• 'I got a garbled message on my answerphone from my daughter. Times, Sunday Times
• The edition more than once refers, in wry self-defence, to the description of the character in 1984 who 'was engaged in producing garbled versions - definitive texts, they were called'. The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)
• The plan was simple - find a bunch of old French fellas playing boules, interrupt with garbled explanation and launch one of their boule from my shoulder before they know what's hit them.
• Once, we could understand everything he said with perfect clarity, but now, everything is garbled and sometimes even slurred.
• Garbled details would be passed on by word of mouth and soon convoys of hatchbacks would head out for sunrise sessions in motorway service stations and picnic spots.
• Such garbled ruminations, however, were my very first undoing, for instanter I had stepped on vicious air and landed a good three feet below.
• First, a telegram or telex may be garbled as a result of a failure in operations.
• A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
• Fragments of her garbled, hesitant, appalled version of events in that underground garage in Peshawar nagged at him. THE LAST RAVEN