How To Use Legible 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.
She holds a scroll, he a codex, on both of which the writing is clearly legible.
Her handwriting was clearly legible.
A second larger text must belong to the same category, as the first legible line clearly mentions an "agonothetes (president and financer) of the agones (games) Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 3
And in these days Annie had at length finished her fair copy of Hector's last book, writing it out in her own lovelily legible hand -- not such as ladies in general count legible, because they can easily read it themselves; she could do better than that, she could write so that others could not fail to read. Far Above Rubies
Halfway down the second page, my handwriting becomes illegible. LOVE YOU MADLY
It had no label, only a sticker scrawled with illegible handwriting.
A revolution in typeface design has led to everything from more-legible newspapers and cell-phone displays to extra-tacky wedding invitations. What's in a Font?
I gathered from the expression of the officer's face, and the dread legible upon the culprit's, that it might be some considerable time before his itch for breaking the eighth commandment could be again indulged in. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
I continued reading past the scribbles, where the handwriting once again became legible.
Hand written prescription sheets can contribute to drug errors in that they may be illegible, incomplete, or subject to transcription errors when rewritten.
Almost every photographic aberration is now legible because of its constant recurrence in all the vehicles of visual mass communication.
Solomon was celebrated for wisdom, but folly is write in legible characters upon his almost every action. On the Equality of the Sexes
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?
As we sifted through the wreckage, I came across the charred but legible number plate - it was Polish!
In no time, it was full of illegible lines and squiggles.
Do you know, however, 'continued he musingly,' that at Sparta (which is now Palaeochori) -- at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle, upon which are still legible the letters. The Assignation
He starts Ch. 9 by talking about the "literary experience" of Whole Foods: making the food chain "legible" - Serendip's Exchange
The scratches that the stylus makes are legible, but in order to make them more plain, ink is rubbed upon the surface of the leaves, which fills up the furrows forming the letters.
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.
Some parts are painted white to assist with light diffusion, but the essential texture and character of the material is still legible.
This book has an attractive look to it, with a legible typeface and good layout.
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.
This book has an attractive look to it, with a legible typeface and good layout.
When a person signs a document, his acceptance of an illegible scrawl as his signature is sufficient to make it his signature.
I could live with a change in its size, if that made it cheaper for you, so long as the nonglossy paper and legible fonts remain. Tell Us What to Do
It was tied up with string and read in scribbled, almost illegible, penmanship.
As their various sharings become more obvious, so their individual trajectories become more legible. Times, Sunday Times
I stared at the note, wishing that the mystery person had more legible handwriting.
On the roughcast wall only a few letters of the name Kaplan et Zanin were still legible. Maigret and the Man on the Bench
_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 menu controls in the viewfinder are equally bright, sharp and legible.
A second larger text must belong to the same category, as the first legible line clearly mentions an "agonothetes (president and financer) of the agones (games) Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 3
The note was written in his usual illegible scrawl.
When he filled out the paperwork, his hand was so shaky that his name and address were hardly legible.
Matter becomes the matter of words, which creates structure, makes legible, interprets, against a ground of unreadable silence.
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!
Harry had used something pointed, a twig or pen, and had printed very legible uppercase block letters in the earth: YOU FLINCHED! VAPOR TRAIL
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
My problem now is that I actually type faster than I write (even in cursive), so I get impatient and try to write faster – which makes it even less legible … Print or Cursive « Write Anything
The illustration is probably of Smolin's "fecund universe" it's not really legible, which is a rather different idea. If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today
When presented for signature, the document must be in such a state that its terms are readily legible.
Her handwriting was so tiny it was barely legible.
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
As an additional means of secrecy, the messages may be transmitted invisibly, by moistening the paper with diluted muriatic acid alone, the writing being rendered legible by a solution of prussiate of potass. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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.
The inscriptions on the dials of the clock tower were no longer legible.
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
The signature was still legible.
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
The provenance is no longer legible in the colophon.
If you enlarge the photo, it is legible on the left above the passengers, and on the right above the broon, the LHR loop is visable. Proof that the Brown Era of Spin is Beginning
Her signature is totally illegible .
Worn smooth by years of inclement weather and pollution, the engraved lettering was still legible. CHAMELEON
Please keep letters as brief as possible, and legible; we reserve the right to edit them.
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.
Even the romanized names were typeset vertically in very small letters, rendering them hardly legible.
Ramses ' hieroglyphic hand was extremely elegant, in striking contrast to his English handwriting, which was practically illegible. LION IN THE VALLEY
In order to justify the time spent on producing them, the copies should be consistently clear and legible.
The parts, however, where the letters of the inscription had existed, oxidate at a different rate from the surrounding parts, so that these letters exhibit their shape, and become legible in consequence of the film of oxide which covers them having a different thickness, and therefore reflecting a different tint from that of the adjacent parts. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
851 Bishop Lanto transferred the relics to the newly erected church of Fussen, this "Life" is said to have been found in a scarcely legible condition, and to have been emendated and rewritten by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The subjects, while still legible, appear to dematerialize into pulsing waves of contrastingly colored parallel lines.
That done they then had to patiently read almost illegible writing which had eroded over the decades and centuries.
They are neat, legible, easily handled and can be filed in chronological order. 2.
In order to justify the time spent on producing them, the copies should be consistently clear and legible.
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...?
Harry had used something pointed, a twig or pen, and had printed very legible uppercase block letters in the earth: YOU FLINCHED! VAPOR TRAIL
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION
Your handwriting is so illegible that nobody can read it.
Margaret's English spelling was atrocious, the handwriting not quite legible, sentences ungrammatical, disconnected or incomplete - a condition attributed to dyslexia or malfunctioning of the brain.
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
Learn about gradient, structure, concavity, and maybe even make your chicken-scratch a little more legible, no matter what your gender. Boing Boing
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
Short correspondence like thank-you notes can be handwritten if your handwriting is legible.
It was in Pitois ' hand, archaic and elegant, though not all that easily legible. DISPLACED PERSON
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
Strange visual features include photographs of letters reproduced so small as to be barely legible.
Do you know, however, "continued he musingly —" that at Sparta (which is now Palæochori), at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle upon which are still legible the letters ΛΑΞΜ. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
Road signs become illegible through the smoke screen of charcoal burning, cigarettes smoldering in the grass.
But if the note is made legible they hope it could provide further information.
Some were on scraps of tissue, some on scented paper, some typewritten, many hardly legible.
In other words, either artist could have - and, indeed, must have - painted these passages of sprezzatura for the altarpiece to be legible from a distance.
Who heard of making the title legible only by opening the book up and looking at both sides? Kirby: King of Comics « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
The inscriptions on the dials of the clock tower were no longer legible.
Technorati parser is much too legible – this appears for [fensi] but not [google fensi] asso Says: Another Benefit of the Technorati Top 100
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.
New Year's Eve 2004: I skittered down to Elk Grove, Calif., on Highway 99 with rain boiling my windshield; obscuring my view save for suburban neons, crimson taillights, and scant highlights of freeway signs only legible from 10 feet away.
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.
The plane was sitting on the tarmac, yards away, the livery's colours distorted by the bright sunshine, but the name legible on the fuselage: Freebird. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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.
He refrained from crossing his letters and rarely wrote up the sides of the sheet, though twice he jokingly interlined a half-sheet upside down ( "heels over head") because Severn had complained of his writing being "too legible. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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
Eventually, she resolved to hold her wrist down to the table so that her writing would be legible.
The larger portion of the letters are illegible and the text has been reversed and cannot be read.
I thought nothing: a tight, highly legible, uneccentric script. Breakfast At Tiffany's
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
They're legible but barely, approaching a very painterly monochromatic abstraction.
It's what a watch should be: waterproof, nearly indestructible, accurate, and radically legible.
Most of it was either illegible or written in Latin.
Worn smooth by years of inclement weather and pollution, the engraved lettering was still legible. CHAMELEON
Half of the phrases are printed in reverse so that they are legible only when read from the other side of the cylinder.
Always in a translucent color, backwashed behind more legible text, but still… does that make me annoying? Dustbury.com » A serious rival for Comic Sans
By that secret the mystery of the organ is legible: and a comparison of the heart to the mountain rillet is taken up to show us the unbaffled force of the little channel in seeking to swell its volume, strenuously, sinuously, ever in pursuit of self; the busiest as it is the most single-aiming of forces on our earth. The Egoist
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 artistic style in some cases overshadows the writings, no matter how clean and legible the writings are.
A banderole next to Judas's face is badly degraded, but its final word is still legible as ‘pauperibus’.
In the upper left-hand corner, a name was legible: Miracles for the Masses. Sparks
The previously illegible texts are among a hoard of papyrus manuscripts.
The handwriting shows hurry and in places is scarcely legible. The Filigree Ball
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.
In fact Liszt himself played Mendelssohn's brand new First Piano Concerto, sight-reading the far-from legible manuscript in the Erard piano showrooms in Paris, much to Mendelssohn's amazement.
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.
The clauses in the problem appear to be quite legible, but they are on the reverse of the document and there is no notice such as ‘See over for conditions’ on its face.
Problems arise because drug names sound alike, prescriptions are illegible and pharmacists are overextended.
If they were to inspect it closely, they would find a large crack across the top cutting through an inscription which is now barely legible.
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.
Fortunately the eight legible digits provide enough information to enable you to supply the missing figures.
The legible inscription gave the date of her death plus her age in years, months and days, along with cause of death, so I gained enough information to fruitfully continue my research.
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.
A typeface has first to be legible, nay, readable, and a sans serif is certainly not the most legible typeface when set in quantity, let alone readable … Good typography has to be perfectly legible and, as such, the result of intelligible planning … The classical typefaces such as Garamond, Janson, Crooked Timber
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.
Her handwriting was neat and legible.
Her neat handwriting was flowing and legible, nothing like my slanted scrawl.
My signature takes longer to sign than most, because I've always tried to make my name legible.
Health staff must ensure all handwritten records are legible, dated and signed.
In Ryan's nearly illegible scrawl was her name on the package.
The artistic style in some cases overshadows the writings, no matter how clean and legible the writings are.
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He used the name Harris and wrote a barely legible address in Nottinghamshire.
[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.
Her cartouche is sculptured in the space between her right arm and left knee, but the hieroglyphic characters have been erased, and it is no longer legible. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
The airport fills in as a liminal zone where one's own otherness (within our ‘own’ culture, and even to oneself) becomes more visible, if not necessarily legible.
It's at the edge of schlock and kitsch, but it's a nice throwback to the times when people would practice their letters and made sure their handwriting was neat, legible, and beautiful.
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
These children are able to produce legible handwriting but they do not achieve automaticity of handwriting.
Quickly Chelsea flipped open the message, it was stained with water and some of the ink had run, but all was still legible..
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.
A planning application is invalid if there is no site notice, if it is not in place for five weeks or if it is not clearly legible from the public road, with some allowance for deliberate vandalising or removal of notices.
The napkin, blurred and illegible, and the letter clear as day. THE MANANA MAN
Standing upon their lofty pinnacles, they are as legible to the rabble below as a line of cuneiform writing in a page of old copybook roundhand. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Halfway down the second page, my handwriting becomes illegible. LOVE YOU MADLY
It will be clear and legible both for singers and musicians.
The bottom half of the paper was in Ian's nearly illegible scrawl.
Her neat handwriting was flowing and legible, nothing like my slanted scrawl.
Her handwriting was so tiny it was barely legible.
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION

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