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ADVERB
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in an intelligible manner
the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly
How To Use intelligibly In A Sentence
- The marketplace will start to reward modular books that can be intelligibly split into standalone chapters.
- People write illegibly or mumble unintelligibly.
- Personal deformity from malconformation is uncommon; the only instance I remember being that of a young woman, whose utterance was unintelligibly nasal, in consequence of an imperfect development of the palatine bones leaving a gap in the roof of the mouth. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
- the foreigners spoke unintelligibly
- He spluttered unintelligibly, shook his head, and looked very miserable. THE DESCENT
- He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper. CHAPTER XX
- The marketplace will start to reward modular books that can be intelligibly split into standalone chapters.
- After the treatment, we see her standing dazed in a straitjacket, muttering unintelligibly, her hair standing on end, sparks flying from her head.
- So much so, that there will be no equivocations or amphibolies, and everything which will be said intelligibly in that language will be said with propriety.
- The foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly.