How To Use Unintelligible In A Sentence

With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
We reserve the right to edit all letters so that all the nasty, unintelligible bits get taken out.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
That name will live in infamy for as long as the US continues to exist; the most unintelligible moron to ever foul the Oval Office, as well as the worst president in US history. Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question

Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
But he had difficulty breathing and his speech was almost unintelligible. The Sun
As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
On the record and live, Jon's vocals are almost unintelligible through guitarist Jared Burke Eglington's extreme riffage.
I plowed through this text in my bedroom late at night, while the unintelligible garble of the downstairs television kept me abreast of my parents' assured position in front of it.
Mr. GOLD: The particular percussion on that is (unintelligible), which are known as a Senegalese instrument, but it's part of what Toumani's saying, which is part of this (unintelligible) empire idea, whereas the (unintelligible) were very much from part of the Malian music as well. Diabate's Orchestra Showcases Sounds of Mali
He was doing something almost unintelligible in terms of British political culture yet central to that of the US. Times, Sunday Times
It was obviously written for the children or grandchildren of the mosstroopers whose exploits it glorifies, a generation to whom appeals to a higher code than their ancestors accepted would have been wholly unintelligible.
On the repetition of this same experience we were forced to the supposition that there is an _intimate bond, with laws of its own, between the unintelligible and complicated nature of the dream and the difficulties attending communication of the thoughts connected with the dream_. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
She says that all you do is burp, fart, dribble, grin inanely and emit a series if unintelligible noises.
I could almost see the unintelligible vocabulary of academia flying over their heads. Christianity Today
But, unaware as I am that this is my real goal, my dissatisfaction will remain diffuse and unintelligible to me.
The special history of literary transcendence is ultimately unintelligible and idiosyncratic; its meticulous particularity, a refusal of judgment.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
The warmer the lake is at the end of the year as winter comes in, the more snowfall we're going to get because we're in the lake effects (unintelligible) snow area. Predicting The Weather Not Always High-Tech
Nick chuckles, and Jonnie guesses from the next muffled, unintelligible words that the pair are now kissing.
MAMOUDOU CONDE, LES PERCUSSIONS DE GUINEE: The real name of jembe is unity, and that's why anywhere in Guinea, whether in the village or in the city, if (UNINTELLIGIBLE), everyone together, the female, the younger -- everybody. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003
As he did so, he heard Angel One's harsh voice shout something unintelligible.
Well, there's ironically post-modern and then there's almost unintelligible.
RITA HABEBE, TOUR OPERATOR MAGIC LIBYA: And (UNINTELLIGIBLE) think (ph) about Libya and Tripoli itself has seen a bit of a boomtown. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2002
And there's something called insourcing now is the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) influence to that, right? CNN Transcript May 3, 2004
Plus there are some seriously cheesy synth lines and fake handclaps etc that would make Lil Jon run from the room in embarrassment (maybe shouting something unintelligible as he did).
A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
Gautier could cast himself as a seeker of truth unencumbered by alliances with established scientists, a doubter who discovered faults in prevailing theories but was prevented from receiving the acclaim he deserved. reference The presentation in Chroa-génésie is so convoluted that it is unintelligible without a good knowledge of the physics and mathematics that render its deficiencies obvious. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
So whereas one of them says, "Fundus animae meae tangit fundum essentiae Dei," it had certainly been better for him to have kept his apprehensions or fancy to himself, than to express himself in words which in their own proper sense are blasphemous, and whose best defensative is that they are unintelligible. Pneumatologia
She could hear her mother-in-law continue speaking but the words were unintelligible and seemed to come from a far-off distance. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
Then you go on to, "lambast," him for writing what you said is basically unintelligible. For the Sake of Argument
I hope that the Israelis will really understand the importance of holding these Palestinian elections, because failure to do these elections will mean (UNINTELLIGIBLE) sliding further and further toward chaos, lawlessness, militias, violence and counterviolence. CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2004
The paper contained a few words of perfectly unintelligible text.
It wasn't quite the same as when a sorcerer used high level spells, but the words were still unintelligible.
He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor. Oliver Twist
When you begin taking the term flood, if you try to (unintelligible) it so many ways as the insurance companies have, it's going to be ambiguous. Defining "Flood," with Billions at Stake
His sleep was restless, and every so often he mumbled a few unintelligible words.
The reply, a weird breathing sound, and an unintelligible, totally alien jabbering.
We have what they call a regional task force, a regional terrorist group, not only of the officers in Philadelphia, but we're linked up with the FBI, the surrounding areas, everyone working together, which makes it (ph) very important with the idea that if we can get intelligence with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) be (ph) exactly in Philadelphia, but if it's in surrounding areas. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2002
As such, he confounds modern-day screamers on both the left and the right for whom the warrior code is unintelligible.
A song will be scrambled, and downloaded simply as raw, unintelligible data.
For most people, indeed, the acts of a sex murderer are impossible and unintelligible.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
But when we look outside of ourselves, and listen to someone else's story, however false or unintelligible it may seem, we begin to triangulate our positions.
By the _Gazette_ report we conclude the Festival must have ended as many such meetings do; and never better expressed than by Lord Byron in his facete moments -- "then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then" -- but we have done. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832
This was "Taff" Williams, Stoker First-class, comedian tenth-class, and master of patter unintelligible (mercifully so, perhaps) to any but a bluejacket audience. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone.
These are for ever crying out, Why did he not employ the word impulsion, which is so well understood, rather than that of attraction, which is unintelligible? Letter XV-On Attraction
I think what might even be more interesting for drug development is to pursue what they all pharmacogenomics in the clinical trials world, where they know that certain subpopulations of humans, genetically, respond differently to drugs, and it may be possible to make chips that effectively represent whole populations and thus you could be doing that kind of pharmacogenomics, if you like, but doing it on, you know, thousands of little micro channels on a chip the size of your hand, and multiplexing and doing (unintelligible). NPR Topics: News
I may leave parties a little earlier than usual, when the chat gets unintelligible to anyone who isn't hammered.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Giver thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
And that was in the papal apartments Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the camerlengo, who was one of the key players in this transition period, the cardinal, was in -- the inside the papal apartments, along with several other high church officials and Dr. Renato, who's an (UNINTELLIGIBLE), the pope's physician for the last 26 years. CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005
I had told my friends to warn their parents so they were prepared for his unintelligible conversation. Times, Sunday Times
It's as unintelligible a piece of artspeak and psychobabble as I have ever stumbled through, and a dictionary is not supplied.
Sometimes I'd hear a melodic fragment or a texture, or it might sound like voices muttering in an unintelligible language.
Eastern women the notion of deforming the figure for the sake of appearance only is unintelligible and repulsive. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Even when the results are unintelligible, the method can indirectly generate fresh thoughts and sometimes laughter.
Unintelligible Latinisms litter the insides of the booklet, awkwardly coupling with sepulchral imagery.
Her often unintelligible language is as nascent as the land itself; sounds not yet words gurgle like the very volcanoes that created her native surroundings.
Cassis, caulis, fascis, finis, etc. (containing the list of masculine nouns of the third declension ending in-is), but long involved rules of syntax also that are absolutely unintelligible except to the initiated and those who are by nature the children of light. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
If the positions of farmer and kills are interchanged, the sentence reads kills the farmer the duckling, which is most naturally interpreted as an unusual but not unintelligible mode of asking the question, does the farmer kill the duckling? Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
Mr. Carney is also a mushmouth who renders the lyrics of his songs all but unintelligible instead of projecting them clearly, thereby making the score even less dramatically potent. Spidey's Green Glimmer of Hope
Emerson mumbled something unintelligible into the orifice in question. LION IN THE VALLEY
Enough of the biting social satire and back to the task of understanding our unintelligible cousins across the pond.
The name "earwig" itself is sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more utterly unintelligible. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
The reply, a deep but rapid burst of alien garble, is unintelligible.
He waged war against the mountains of unintelligible gobbledygook that is regularly dumped on schools by government bureaucrats.
All she got in reply was some slurred, unintelligible mumbling.
Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either. Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
They have presented a declaration of 12,000 pages that did not provide any new evidence, and they need to be active, not to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the word proactive, in order to convince the Security Council through us that they do not have any more weapons of mass destruction, or else if they are there, that they deliver them so that they can be destroyed under our supervision. CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2003
This absorption in such pursuits, totally unintelligible to his schoolfellows, who were then totally ignorant of mathematics, procured him a not very complimentary nickname.
His fury was so great he could hardly speak. He growled some unintelligible words at Pete.
And actually what he does (unintelligible) is he's kind of craved dismay, really, at everything that he found. Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Dead And The Undead
Related: "A world series of assassins may be the movie's five-word pitch but, burdened with an unnecessarily complicated and aggressively insistent backstory and hence immediately unintelligible, Smokin 'Aces is one busy-busy-busy movie," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Joe Carnahan and Jeremy Piven.
To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. The Eye of Osiris
Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
He said something unintelligible and shoved the money back at me. The Other Side of Me
Why I was rambling a spew of unintelligible garble, I had not a clue.
As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
What kind of felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honour him, a man shall no sooner know than enjoy; being joys that now are as incomprehensible as the word of Schoolmen, beatifical vision, is unintelligible. Leviathan
DOBBS: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) supervisor in Los Angeles today talking about the fraud of the matricular consular cards and actually had a journalist follow up and say, well, the reason you're saying this is because you don't like Mexicans. CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2005
Dr. THIEREN: The conditions are (unintelligible) of about a million, a million and a half (unintelligible) population in precarious conditions. Officials Race To Contain Cholera Outbreak In Haiti
What kind of felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honour Him a man shall no sooner know than enjoy, being joys that now are as incomprehensible as the word of schoolmen beatifical vision is unintelligible. Chapter VI. Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed
Air traffic controllers in Siberia claim they were buzzed by a high-speed UFO with a female sounding alien who spoke in an unintelligible cat-like language.
When understood, these attractors often explain complex, seemingly unintelligible behaviour.
What we call the vicarious sacrifice of Christ is nothing strange as regards the Nothing superlative in the principle of the cross. principle of it, no superlative, unexampled, and therefore unintelligible grace. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
In less capable hands such a flurry of motivic activity can disintegrate into the unintelligible.
Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
Although October is often opaque and unintelligible, it is not utterly bereft of sense. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
(Soundbite of song, "Parce mihi Domine") Mr. JAMES: (unintelligible) was standing there and we just began to sing this piece. Hilliard Ensemble: Improvising With Jan Garbarek
When he got his first phonograph as a teenager in New Orleans, he had a lot of records by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, but he also had a lot of Caruso and John McCormack and (unintelligible) and as he might have put it, Tetrazzini. 'Pops': Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words
His speech was almost unintelligible and punctuated with startling bursts of volume.
They're hackneyed and thus utterly predictable, yet they still manage to be largely unintelligible.
Thele again are as unintelligible to the pa - cific controverter of his opinions; for, being. Arundel
When I approached her, which I did with the reverence due to royalty, and expressed, though I believe but in very unintelligible terms, the mixture of surprize and pleasure with which my meeting her had inspired me — I endeavoured to be very polite; but was, I am persuaded, more boobyish in that moment, than I ever was in any preceding one, throughout my existence. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
It's not surprising to discover that this famous Japanese novelist from the Neiji period also wrote haiku, since these three long short stories are equally unintelligible.
And they came in and we suddenly noticed that our white smocks sort of started to get a very, very pale brown mist very, very pale (unintelligible). Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
Mr. MATHEWS: Is there any type of safety device on an air-intake system that would prevent gas to flow into the engine control room (unintelligible)? Oil Rig Mechanic: Managers Argued Before Blast
I think I'd have been inclined to shuffle about and mumble something unintelligible.
Many mutually unintelligible languages of today are "daughter" languages of a common "parent" language. Cultural Anthropology
My friend Natalie can't see the point in you. She says that all you do is burp, fart, dribble, grin inanely and emit a series if unintelligible noises.
(Wisla) I prowled about among the crypts with a curious specimen of beadledom who ran off long unintelligible histories in atrocious Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
I mumbled some unintelligible half-apology and took the elevator down to the lobby.
In the course of time the various forms of action became largely unintelligible and significatory only after long experience. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Raúl Esparza, cast as a fey mathematician who tries to explain chaos theory to Hannah, makes the mistake of reducing his big speech to unintelligible gabble, while Mr. Crudup is too genial to be convincing as a waspishly malicious academic. When Good Enough Just Isn't Enough
Alston knows that the notion of a nontemporal God who is qualified by relation to temporal beings will strike Hartshorne as unintelligible. Charles Hartshorne
A good many people in my own class are impatient of them, and think of them as harmless recreations; I fall back upon a few like-minded friends, with whom I can talk easily and unreservedly of such things, without being thought priggish or donnish or dilettanteish or unintelligible. At Large
A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
The patent covers real-time and batch analysis of audio data streams with the ability to render "undesired" words or phrases unintelligible or inaudible. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
I mumbled something deliberately unintelligible and hopped down.
On their way out, the women shout various slurred, unintelligible insults at the stage.
Such novels may be written in a seemingly unintelligible stream of consciousness style, contain puns, portmanteau words, even retreat into a private language.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
At the same time, we turn our heads, watch him fall off a chair and slur something unintelligible.
Despite the all the virulent and often unintelligible comments that have somehow made it past CNN's moderators (makes you wonder what they're up to, huh?), Mr. Steele is not dismissing these two incidents because he doesn't believe them to be unethical, but rather because his overall goal is to move the focus within the GOP away from the older party members and towards younger, "fresher" candidates. Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'
Unintelligible there's even a Greek name for it in people, called alexia sine agrafia, lost of ability to read but not of ability to write. NPR Topics: News
It confounded, I say, the multeity below intellect, that is, unintelligible from defect of the subject, with the absolute identity above all intellect, that is, transcending comprehension by the plenitude of its excellence. Literary Remains, Volume 2
Sometimes I'd hear a melodic fragment or a texture, or it might sound like voices muttering in an unintelligible language.
These words are usually unintelligible to those who are outside the specialty.
He began to speak in a tongue which was unintelligible to Carl yet which he thought he could almost understand.
[100-1] The abridger of the original journal missed the point here and his epitome is unintelligible. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
There seems to be nothing unintelligible or incoherent about the notion of spontaneous self-movement.
BARAJAS: Well, you know, the problem is that we're going to have a tremendous blue collar workforce or workforce in the service industry that doesn't make a lot of money, that is not putting away any money and who typically, what I call the patron unintelligible system, meaning that they're always relying on somebody else. NPR Topics: News
** It was a markedly different discussion from when Pat Cadigan spoke at my Science Fiction course at UC Santa Cruz, when the boondoggled Cadigan was sabotaged with a bunch of unintelligible academic-theory questions about the implications of Lacan and Freud in her identity-bender work. A Paparazzo at the LA Festival of Books
And I am sick and tired of listening to his ceaseless and unintelligible chatter.
He heard her grumbling something unintelligible, a sure sign that she was frustrated.
And the next thing that happens is the following airplane shows up, and this is what we call a SEED, a suppression (UNINTELLIGIBLE) air defense airplanes, and he fires a radar homing missile, a high-speed antiradiation missile that homes in on the radar to take out the missile sites. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2001
She found the melodious tunes unintelligible, just like some of the songs in their cold church. GWENDOLEN
COOPER: I talked to the captain in charge of this the other -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- last night, who said that, I mean, they're not using the term serial killer yet. CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2004
Despite similarity in syntax, vocabulary, and grammar, the contemporary languages are mutually unintelligible.
Mu’ezzin is preferred, and many ridiculous stories are told about men who for years have counterfeited cecity to live in idleness [.] 61 I have illustrated this chapter, which otherwise might be unintelligible to many, by a plan of the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Everything else it says is as unintelligible as the warbling of a canary.
His script was unintelligible.
Happily and unhappily poverty is not abolishable: "The poor ye have always with you" is a sentence that can never become unintelligible. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
That's the one, chickpea. I hope that (unintelligible) doesn't frighten him off. -Clean yourself up, you bourgeois pig.
His fury was so great he could hardly speak. He growled some unintelligible words at Pete.
The reply, a weird breathing sound, and an unintelligible, totally alien jabbering.
The reply, a weird breathing sound, and an unintelligible, totally alien jabbering.
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) in other word, they like escarped. CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2005
unintelligible speech
But then they had the soft part of the war, where they went in and tried to take away what they considered to be Saddam Hussein's weapons, to go after the so-called scud (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in western Iraq so that they couldn't terrorize the Israelis and bring other nations into this war. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
Indeed, as I left Chelsea Barracks this morning, the guardsmen were up and dusting down their uniforms and getting the busbies (ph), the black helmet, the hat that guardsmen wear, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Canadian bearskin. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2002
He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an instant later he had fallen asleep. Les Miserables
Advance copies of the ballot showed a ponderous, almost unintelligible, question. Times, Sunday Times
Upon the whole, I consider the translation a good one, but I cannot help thinking that the author has been frequently too paraphrastical, and that in various places he must be utterly unintelligible to the Mandchous from having unnecessarily made use of words which are not Mandchou, and with which the Tartars cannot be acquainted. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
Awesome and seductive, they undo the myth that contemporary art is unintelligible to all but the initiated.
Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
At first, she thought that her voice had come out in an unintelligible garble, but she finally realized that the reason for their mirth was coming from behind her, out the window.
Data encryption is defined as the process of scrambling transmitted or stored information making it unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient.
The idea of a cipher system is to disguise confidential information in such a way that its meaning is unintelligible to an unauthorized person.
No advantage can be reaped from the most excellent discourses, if delivered in unintelligible language, such as the audience can neither speak nor understand: but he that prophesies speaks to the advantage of his hearers; they may profit by his gift. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
‘Blood From Zion’ is a thick, unstoppable stomp slathered in harsh, unintelligible wails.
Awesome and seductive, they undo the myth that contemporary art is unintelligible to all but the initiated.

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