How To Use Garbled In A Sentence
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He told the inquest the message was garbled and he couldn't understand any of it.
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'I got a garbled message on my answerphone from my daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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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)
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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.
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Once, we could understand everything he said with perfect clarity, but now, everything is garbled and sometimes even slurred.
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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.
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Such garbled ruminations, however, were my very first undoing, for instanter I had stepped on vicious air and landed a good three feet below.
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First, a telegram or telex may be garbled as a result of a failure in operations.
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A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
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Fragments of her garbled, hesitant, appalled version of events in that underground garage in Peshawar nagged at him.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The file shredder's mission is to scramble files before deletion, making them garbled and unreadable.
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The interrogator began speaking through an intercom, his voice garbled in static.
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Fix problems with your printer, such as the inability to print or getting a garbled printout.
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You end up with the mendacious garbled into incoherence.
Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened
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To her immense satisfaction, the gag did nothing to prevent the volume of her yelling, only muffled and garbled it.
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The voice became more and more garbled until the telephone became nothing more than a bubbling protoplasmic mass of dripping plastic, and the voice stopped altogether.
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Some were garbled articles from various encyclopaedias, about international politics, about online democracy, about computerised supermarket stocktaking, about kwashiorkor and other kinds of malnutrition.
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His lawyers protested, claiming that this would hamper their ability to ask follow up questions or to clarify points that might be garbled through translators.
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Gould and Lewontin later garbled the argument to discredit any hypothesis that any trait is an adaptation: they hid the operation of natural selection behind evasive verbiage about "co-opting" and "reusing" spandrels which never identifies the co-opter or reuser.
'The Blank Slate': An Exchange
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That was rather garbled and hastily thrown together, but we will return with him.
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The result will be calls where your voice will be broken up and garbled.
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The lengthy letter contained a number of criticisms, including describing his article as ‘garbled rubbish’.
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If this was the case, it is strange that the message was so garbled - no clear understanding of BT's thinking emerged until after the first reports of a boardroom bust-up.
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I no longer have time for your garbled emails, and now your litany of lies.
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‘The message on my answerphone was a bit garbled,’ she said, ‘so I didn’t exactly understand why she needed this statement from me.
A Special Relationship
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It is not clear whether she sold the product in the green bean, roasted, "garbled" (ground), or
All About Coffee
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According to a garbled ancient tradition he was tried for embezzlement and/or impiety at Athens or Olympia (where his workshop has been excavated) and was executed or died in exile.
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Connor's transmission was very garbled, but the seriousness of the situation was clear to all listening.
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Play online games frequently out garbled Korea, himself wrote a months use.
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Faster would result in artifacting or a garbled screen, requiring a reboot to restore things to working order.
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If we had just waited, listened calmly while strange shaped ships plummeted from the sky spewing garbled language of conquest.
365 tomorrows » 2005 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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It's difficult to cut through the muddy and garbled ever-changing story to get a clear sense of what exactly is causing this discomfort.
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It begins with electronic sounds of garbled voices and interference from static-laden radio channels, and gradually introduces gentle guitar strumming, stately piano chords, warm contrabass, and dreamy steel guitar.
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But, on the other part, the defendant shall be bound to furnish him with hay and stubble for stopping the caltrops of his throat, troubled and impulregafized, with gabardines garbled shufflingly, and friends as before, without costs and for cause.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It penetrated through the houses, shaking the earth and pounding the eardrums of a garbled populace which had gradually grown accustomed to the noise.
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You implant a patient, and initially all they hear is garbled noise, and in six months they can carry on a conversation on the telephone.
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His speech, impaired by Parkinson's, is garbled, but he plugged along.
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Even then, you can expect anything other than the simplest bullets to be garbled.
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He gave a garbled account of what had happened.
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My first post was kind of garbled because of my unfamiliarity with XHTML coding.
Stone Tools and Arguments Against Design
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After waking up, her speech was garbled and she was confused.
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A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
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The resettlement process was still agonizingly slow in Magude in the mid-1990s, but naming memoriesnot "garbled" at allwere serving the generation of interviewees rather well.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Either that, or the meaning of the phrase was garbled by the time it reached Homer.
The Trojan War
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It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
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Similarly, machine output can be garbled or human eye or ear may misperceive a result as it appears on a small screen.
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The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination.
Allan and the Holy Flower
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During the Renaissance, for example, it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form.
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* Maintenance *garbled* dation has mission impacted airborne opera *garbled* on most of air breather aircraft.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
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It seems that Valvasor made the logical (but incorrect) assumption that Lintvern (which is a garbled form of the German word Lindwurm, meaning dragon) was so named because it was the source of olms (which were fancifully regarded as dragon larvae at the time).
Archive 2006-03-01
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No doubt such garbled syntax does great things for policymakers sitting on committees.
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The papers had some garbled version of the story.
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On windy days, the smoke was wafted so that signals became garbled and confusing.
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You try to talk to a fellow shopper, but your words sound garbled, and others seem confused by your speech.
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Their arrangement is a little grungier and one of the reasons the lyrics were so garbled is that their lead singer, Jack Ely, had braces and the engineer had one really good microphone that he hung way up high so that it wouldn't get any rock 'n' roll spit on it.
Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco
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His voice sounds somewhat garbled in those recordings.
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We messed up our interview schedule through Keystone Kops series ofgarbled communications.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » We interrupt our regularly scheduled program . . .
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This was not a fragment of garbled information.
The Sun
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He revealed a rougher side, first singing garbled scat vocals into his trumpet, and then using actual words, which was unexpected from an abstract act.
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And what a fool I must have seemed to her as I garbled inanities into the receiver.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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So how does Hansbrough feel about having his name garbled so often.
News & Record Article Feed
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his speech was garbled
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He called, his voice garbled by the sound of hammering and drilling.
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Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then.
"I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
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The message was somewhat garbled, and the three men in question were still 24 hours from Tulsa, but the threat was taken seriously by the FBI, who called in the local police.
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Often the message becomes garbled as it filters through several languages.
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As the remaining chapters of this book demonstrate, the women I met and worked with in Magude did not have vacant or "garbled" memories.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Once again the mixed message is more garbled than ever: it's okay to be independent, but beware of those you think you trust.
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Any VoIP packet out of sequence results in garbled transmissions.
Two thirds of a day with an iPhone (Jack Bog's Blog)
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An eighth century game played by Mongol invaders using sticks and skulls adj. wharrgarbled
Think Progress » Top DADT Advocate Says Abu Ghraib Abuses Happened Because Women Are Allowed In The Military
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The boat jerked and the motor gave a garbled cry like a garbage disposal with a spoon caught inside.
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Canadian voters spoke but, once again, the voting system garbled the message.
