How To Use Illegible In A Sentence

This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader. The Times Literary Supplement
The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
It is a display font whose forms are extremely thick, up to the extent of being nearly illegible.
Some fine Specimens of lava from a partially active Volcano in the province of [gap word illegible], in the extreme north of Japan. Letter to Dr. Thomas from Young John AllenNov 19 1866
Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.

Her signature is totally illegible .
Carrying the burden of disease used to multiply with the multitude of small and large illegible chits and forms they had to carry with them every time they visited the hospital.
Some lines had been added on the last page; but they had been so carefully erased as to be illegible.
Tis really doing Injustice to the Country to impute to it such [illegible] uncandid, illiberal [illegible] Productions, but no Wonder these John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
The writing pieces around the bag of melted ice had ink smudges all over them, enough for it to be illegible.
[illegible] and the superficies in a quadratical Proportion of the diameter to the Amplification of the Diameter. John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759
Road signs become illegible through the smoke screen of charcoal burning, cigarettes smoldering in the grass.
Halfway down the second page, my handwriting becomes illegible. LOVE YOU MADLY
It had no label, only a sticker scrawled with illegible handwriting.
Hand written prescription sheets can contribute to drug errors in that they may be illegible, incomplete, or subject to transcription errors when rewritten.
These Navy awards were a result of an assault behind enemy lines in which the SEAL unit was sent in to free friendly Vietnamese who were held captive an {one word illegible} in which half of the Americans were lost in combat. Heroes or Villains?
Chinese population has depressed the market and driven all such things out - hence the best valuation I can now set upon them is the appraisement value made by the French [gap word illegible] with a view to taxation. Letter from Young John Allen to Dr Lehon,1868?
In no time, it was full of illegible lines and squiggles.
A later purchaser was ‘George Nicoll,’ who bought it from a goodwife (whose name is illegible) for 6d.
Then of course is the corps who are always late, scribble on the back of envelopes, and expect others to read illegible handwriting.
Her professors used to tease her about her careful penmanship, told her all real doctors had illegible scrawl, but she would just smile and tell them patients appreciate knowing what their prescription slips actually said.
When a person signs a document, his acceptance of an illegible scrawl as his signature is sufficient to make it his signature.
It was tied up with string and read in scribbled, almost illegible, penmanship.
_first “e” in “aerometer” illegible_ the Champenois winegrowers Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
My secretary worked long hours translating my almost illegible writing into a typewritten and readable script.
The note was written in his usual illegible scrawl.
When I was in grad school, almost certainly before that cart was created, we had to check our footnotes by grinding through illegible microfilm copies of 100-year-old monographs; by taking the intercampus bus to Berkeley to check on the only copy of a critical edition of certain little-known Medieval MSS west of the Mississippi; by writing a friend in Germany to check with his university research librarian about their copy of that 17th century treatise with marginalia scribbled by Werckmeister; by flying to Washington to buttonhole an old friend working as an assistant at the Library of Congress to see if he could help get me some face time with an important MS that just didn't seem to be available in microfilm; by..... It's the All New Mobile Footnote Check Station!
Elsewhere, one outfit is selling a spray called PhotoBlocker, which claims to make one's license plate illegible to the red light camera. Speaking of those red-light cameras... (Jack Bog's Blog)
The lettering on the gravestone was badly worn and almost illegible.
the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible
None of it now seems especially secret or illegible, but in the forty years that have elapsed I suppose the rest of us have become much less gormless, and better at processing oceans of sensory bombardment. Psychedelic Denver
Clawing through those initial pages with their illegible scrawl and phonetically terrestrial sounds required the tenacity of a saint.
I glanced at where Davis was pointing at in illegible signature scrawled in the bottom right-hand corner.
Eventually when it was prised open, I found some yellowed and brittle sheets of paper, most of them hand-written, but illegible now.
Warning: when they check the signatures the term "illegible" is often used quite liberally and they may try to discard MANY signatures with that bogus claim. At long last, it's recall day (Jack Bog's Blog)
Common avoidable problems include overcrowded or illegible slides, irrelevant or badly prepared handouts, and incompatible multimedia equipment.
Now parts of it are difficult to read, and the signatures and notary stamp are nearly illegible.
We'd write our marks on raw copy (type written on a page) until the pages were almost illegible, and then send it to be turned into a galley proof (one long line of printed up, typed up copy).
The napkin, blurred and illegible, and the letter clear as day. THE MANANA MAN
If a form is inaccurate or illegible the enumerator may ask any question necessary to enable him to correct it. Times, Sunday Times
It hadn't really occurred to me before that you could have serif, sans serif, modern and antique Korean typefaces before (because I'd never really thought about it) and I began to realise that I'd only ever seen 'foreign' type on documents intended for western audiences - hence Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic always looked 'traditional' (the way 'ye olde' English is always rendered in illegible Germanic type, I suppose.) 'Modern' Arabic typefaces
Her signature is totally illegible .
Out of the two forms I gave you, you have lost one, and rendered the other all but illegible?
The illegible writing begins to shift and change, turning into a snake biting its own tail, which twirls in a circle.
Ramses ' hieroglyphic hand was extremely elegant, in striking contrast to his English handwriting, which was practically illegible. LION IN THE VALLEY
That done they then had to patiently read almost illegible writing which had eroded over the decades and centuries.
To read or interpret ( ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter ).
And the Caroline C----- (who the deuce is she that writes such a scratchy, illegible hand?) sends her love to Mrs. Carlyle, and proposes to 'talk to her about Amisfield and Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
There are tones of pages and sites devoted to the information, but they all have the same info, presented in ridiculously convoluted and/or illegible ways, and they all seem to pre-assume all kinds of deep working knowledge of the systems involved; there is no real intro, no newbie sites, no in-depth FAQs. Did I forget to mention...?
Your handwriting is so illegible that nobody can read it.
the doctor's writing was illegible
He was a boaster of his Vices -- a [illegible] great affecter of licentiousness-and at last got in Love, like a fool, with a Girl, much too good for him. John Adams diary 17, 16 April - 14 June 1771
What matter for the arrow-head, illegible stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish. John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
Would ye ken a young stepschuler of psychical chirography, the name of Keven, or (let outers pray) Evan Vaughan, of his Posthorn in the High Street, that was shooing a Guiney gagag, Poulepinter, that found the dogumen number one, I would suggest, an illegible downfumbed by an unelgible? — Finnegans Wake
Indeed, it has only one drawback, and that probably is regarded as an advantage by the profesors; it is that one's mistakes may be detected at a glance; for there is no chance to hide them in illegible writing. The Story of My Life
Her signature is almost illegible.
One sports firm agreed that some numbering could be illegible on certain backgrounds of hoops, bands and colours.
He could hardly refrain from a smile when he came across the sentence, "He was young enough to know better," as he substituted in a large illegible hand the word _old_ for _young_. Red Pottage
the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
Road signs become illegible through the smoke screen of charcoal burning, cigarettes smoldering in the grass.
Although most of the headstones are severely weathered and illegible, cemetery staff will record all legible marks and inscriptions before removing the stones.
Each note was wilder, drunker, harder to read, and eventually illegible.
Her signature was an illegible scrawl.
I blamed this on the artist, whose illegible signature appeared in the corner at the far end of the mural. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
The camera still tended toward the production of noisy clusters of qualitative, subjective, illegible, and inconvertible stuff.
The names on the eroded headstones were all but illegible, so in the waning light the artist made rubbings of the markers.
Moreover, although some end words are illegible on the right side, it is clear that a rebate was granted: the tenants owed 4.16 lire while they actually paid 4.8 lire, as the remaining 8 soldi had been discounted.
Most pernicious consequences [would follow (?) _ -- illegible in MS_.] and many other districts would be disloyal and rebellious; and it would be necessary, when they should have sufficient religious instruction, to go back and win them and [_illegible in MS_.] anew. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
The word corrected, nearly illegible in the original, is presumed from the context of the letter. The King's Best Highway
illegible handwriting
The larger portion of the letters are illegible and the text has been reversed and cannot be read.
Needless to say, the printer's font would have to be submicroscopic, and the story would be illegible except under a scanning electron microscope.
On it, in writing that varied from an insane, calligraphy-like version of printing to a sharp, illegible cursive, were all the pros and cons of sneaking Amadeo food.
It is easy for a designer to get caught up in the aesthetic, but for the sake of functionality, if the type is illegible, the piece is not a success.
When it comes to health care, illegible script can be dangerous, if not deadly.
You might think it looks more impressive that way, but it's just irritatingly illegible and uninterpretable.
The words on the banner were illegible from the sidewalk, but from office windows inside the tower the slogan on the banner could be clearly read: “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” ‘French Spiderman’ Scales the ‘NY Times’ Building (and is Arrested)… But Then Another Dude Tries! | Disinformation
Most of it was either illegible or written in Latin.
You might think it looks more impressive that way, but it's just irritatingly illegible and uninterpretable.
The note was written in his usual illegible scrawl.
The previously illegible texts are among a hoard of papyrus manuscripts.
It didn't matter that the rest of the sentence consisted of illegible runic symbols - I had read enough.
However tattoos usually fade over time, making them illegible.
His hand was shaking so much as he unfolded the paper that it was hard to focus on the words written in Sam's familiar illegible scrawl.
Problems arise because drug names sound alike, prescriptions are illegible and pharmacists are overextended.
Your letter of June 18th from [gap word illegible] is at hand. Letter from Young John Allen to Dr Lehon,1868?
‘We have a national affliction, and it's called cacography - that means ‘illegible handwriting.’
his hand was illegible
There were also some illegible words scrawled in black marker across one work.
His signature was an illegible squiggle at the bottom of the page.
A piece of paper with an illegible scrawling on it sat on a desk, along with a pen and a bottle of ink.
This will expose additional detail and likely enable decipherment of previously illegible portions of the ancient documents.
I blamed this on the artist, whose illegible signature appeared in the corner at the far end of the mural. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
It had no label, only a sticker scrawled with illegible handwriting.
In Ryan's nearly illegible scrawl was her name on the package.
[illegible] and mingle with the Crowd upon Change, and trapes the John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759
Extended writing projects are usually beyond their capabilities, and what is produced may be illegible and of poor quality.
The label had got wet and was now illegible.
The illegible page in the front of Derithon’s book of spells had once held his notes on the making of an athame; they were rendered illegible when his master found them and impressed on his apprentice with a willow switch that the athame was a secret. With a Single Spell
Instead the only letters that should be excluded from the public view are those (for obvious and practical reasons) that are illegible, libelous, uncivil, slanderous, vulgar or duplicates.
The napkin, blurred and illegible, and the letter clear as day. THE MANANA MAN
Halfway down the second page, my handwriting becomes illegible. LOVE YOU MADLY
The bottom half of the paper was in Ian's nearly illegible scrawl.
Ramses ' hieroglyphic hand was extremely elegant, in striking contrast to his English handwriting, which was practically illegible. LION IN THE VALLEY
The camera was so out of focus at the start that the credits were illegible.
Why do you say that? she asks, her expression illegible in the dark. Hollywood Savage
Darron's almost illegible hand writing was scribbled across the page.
My secretary worked long hours translating my almost illegible writing into a typewritten and readable script.
To print books is a little more difficult, because genius so often rejoices in illegible handwriting. Different Drummers
The surface is physically modified, and the painting becomes practically illegible.
You [illegible word] what I have paid for the enclosed, and must remonstrate with him if he is wrong. — Letter 288
Her handwriting is chicken scratches, illegible and unreadable.
Papa's script was so beautiful it was almost illegible and now, when I see something he wrote, those flowing tails and flourishes make my throat close.

How To Use Illegible In A Sentence

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