How To Use Unreadable In A Sentence

  • He sat at the opposite side of the table from Nero, his expression unreadable due to the fact that his face was concealed by a smooth oval mask of flawless black glass. The Overload Protocol
  • The ineffable in poetry is almost always the unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
  • It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
  • Once spray painted, these meters are unreadable by Parking Enforcement Aides, meaning vehicles can't be ticketed as it's impossible to see if the meters were fed or not. The Parking Ticket Geek: Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?
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  • Books are unreadable as soon as the light of the sun disappears behind the distant mountains. Times, Sunday Times
  • Roman watched the delicate colour flood her face, his dark gaze unreadable.
  • Foremost, the time/date stamp is completely unreadable. Dead Deer Walking?
  • It is true that, in bad weather, radar beams can be reflected off waves, causing false echoes or making the screen unreadable.
  • He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable.
  • I'm a trained paleographer (ancient documents in ancient languages on badly-preserved media), but that doesn't mean I actually PREFER to read the unreadable. A Big Close - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Despite the fact that it contains some interesting arguments about theatre's role in a society driven mad by the pursuit of wealth and power, it is, unfortunately, almost unreadable.
  • This book risks being unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • You state you want to make your "personal information" unreadable.
  • It is widely agreed in publishing circles (on the basis of countless years of experience) that many of these manuscripts will be unreadable, unpublishable junk.
  • Michael's expression was unreadable, but the twist to his lips gave Marcus the impression that he had guessed what was wrong.
  • Some heralded his Soul Mountain as a great novel, but others found it unreadable.
  • The door was open, there were some books pilled up in his desk, along with messy papers filled with unreadable handwriting.
  • degausser" - an instrument that disrupts and realigns the tape's magnetic domains, scrambling the encoded information and rendering it permanently unreadable. Slate Magazine
  • It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
  • The result of these techniques is to split spam words that make them unreadable by dictionary-based scanning tools.
  • If you haven't learnt the craft and you produce a lot of unreadable garbage then people won't read you.
  • The man is so full of hatred, vitriol and self-loathing that it is all beginning to seep into his columns so much that they have become almost unreadable.
  • First, they began to lecture about, and write about, stuff that everyone else found pretty much unreadable and dead boring.
  • Belinda risked a cautious glance at him, but met only an unreadable profile.
  • For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
  • She faced the Gathering with an unreadable expression as R'shiel forced the thousand or more Sisters present to accept her reinstatement. TREASON KEEP
  • Books are unreadable as soon as the light of the sun disappears behind the distant mountains. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the backup tape existed (or so they said) it was apparently unreadable.
  • The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
  • One is that no matter what the book is, no matter how dumb or bad or painful or unreadable it may seem to you, there is going to be someone out there who will like it and get pleasure from it, and you need to respect that.
  • She glanced across the room and for a second, she fancied that she saw Emily Bronte, an unreadable expression on her face, nodding her approval.
  • The nurse replied, flipping through some paperwork and scribbling in that unreadable language of health care providers.
  • This media contains unknown or unreadable data. The program settings prevent overwrite.
  • Among the 20th century authors whose works I find mostly unreadable are two who inspire many people with a devotion and respect which are, to me, quite inexplicable.
  • You have no doubt seen people whose signatures are nothing more than scribbles, yet even those unreadable scratch marks are valid.
  • It is true that, in bad weather, radar beams can be reflected off waves, causing false echoes or making the screen unreadable.
  • Nova looked at Mr. Hamilton deadpan and shifted his eyes toward Jocelyn who was sitting at her desk with an unreadable look.
  • Now he was formal and unreadable, the commander, once more.
  • In public, of course, they would fawn all over him as Canadians still do, and bring him cups of tea as he pours over the diaries of yet another dead American President, who he will then 'reinterpret' for the edification of the rest of the world in yet another heavy, unreadable book. Giles Slade: Conrad Black Wriggles Free
  • To be fair, adding them would probably have made the book unreadable and certainly unmanageable. The Times Literary Supplement
  • An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Although the public fear being a victim of identity fraud more than pickpocketing, mugging or even burglary, a large number still put themselves at risk by disposing of private information without first rendering it unreadable.
  • He looked back at the woman for approval, but her face was unreadable.
  • Use staples or sticky tape because glue may make the form unreadable. The Sun
  • To be fair, adding them would probably have made the book unreadable and certainly unmanageable. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But it's the language I never found out how to read… it's… unreadable to me.
  • Odette said, “The ruins were profound and formful, but totally unreadable.” The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.
  • ~His face was almost unreadable, but when Demi looked in his deep brown eyes she saw a pain that she hadn't seen in anyone else's eyes~ Xml's Blinklist.com
  • The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other contributors have written in such a boring way that their work is virtually unreadable.
  • Please use staples or sticky tape as glue can make the form unreadable. The Sun
  • An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Matter becomes the matter of words, which creates structure, makes legible, interprets, against a ground of unreadable silence.
  • This media contains unknown or unreadable data. Do you want to format?
  • Use staples or sticky tape as some glue makes the forms unreadable. The Sun
  • Let's also see whether you try to make it as unreadable as you can, by jumbling up the paragraphing.
  • Handwritten communications that are unreadable are annoying and worthless.
  • “I know you did,” Lucien said, his expression unreadable, his exhaustion-etched face still. Etched in Bone
  • Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet?
  • This media contains unknown or unreadable data. Do you want to erase?
  • So why was I reading Kristof if I've already said he's unreadable?
  • In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
  • She wore the grey tunic of a naval captain, the rank badges so green with seaspray they were unreadable.
  • His body was rigid, his gaze unmoving, fixed on some point on the wall behind the German, his expression entirely unreadable.
  • The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
  • Physicians are often accused of having unreadable handwriting.
  • That novel, about two competing writers, one a vacuous success, the other a brilliant but unreadable failure, has a lot to say about the literary life, both the successful and unsuccessful kind.
  • Some retailers have only grudgingly implemented it, in some cases by using a typeface which is small enough to be unreadable.
  • Both promise to reflect a traffic - camera flash, making the license plate unreadable.
  • Nathan's eyes were unreadable as they looked deep into hers.
  • His expression was unreadable beneath what was now almost a full beard.
  • These problems do not make African Rock Art unreadable, however, and the writing is clear enough for nonspecialists to understand.
  • He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
  • I found it by turns, unreadable, incoherent, breathtakingly dull, or positively disturbing.
  • Scribbling an unreadable note that I attach to the fridge, I glance about for my wrist guards.
  • Let me know if it's unreadable in any browsers.
  • There's no contrast between the font color and the background, making the title unreadable on a shelf. Neth Space
  • An unreadable scrawl that took hours to decipher.
  • The letter received by the Olympics Committee was written in crayon with so many spelling and grammatical errors that it was nearly unreadable. Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
  • They are unreadable inscriptions, and as such convey the permanence and provisionality of all inscription.
  • And I ended up losing the Amstrad disk, which was some weird, unreadable proprietary brand anyway.
  • And this book is unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • His eyes glinted with unreadable emotion, his cheeks stained with dried tears.
  • Use staples or sticky tape as some glue makes the forms unreadable. The Sun
  • Equally interesting is a sermon of Jonathan's grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, written in lettering so tiny that it's unreadable even with a 5x magnifier.
  • In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
  • The man held up his warrant card, even though the laser reflections from shiny clear plastic made it quite unreadable.
  • Please use staples or sticky tape as glue can make the form unreadable. The Sun
  • But the Aston has its own annoying points, like the pretentiously styled dashboard on which the buttons are fiddly and the digital displays are unreadable in direct sunlight.
  • And this book is unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • This media contains unknown or unreadable data. Do you want to overwrite?
  • The secret surfing programs also add a layer of encryption, ensuring that messages are scrambled in transit and are thus unreadable.
  • Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output.
  • It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
  • The file shredder's mission is to scramble files before deletion, making them garbled and unreadable.
  • Each segment of the show is also introduced with a title screen sporting a colorful background and unreadable, untranslated text.
  • There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been re - duced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
  • Use staples or sticky tape because glue may make the form unreadable. The Sun
  • He has served papers upon the Crown in which his address has been either obscured or certainly made unreadable.
  • The LA Times looks at the process of “slabbing,” that is, encasing comics in plastic slabs, rendering them thus unreadable, and clucks its tongue: The only way you can be sure it’s mint
  • … Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
  • For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
  • I find Woodward's breathless you-are-there insider accounts written in his trademark leaden prose to be virtually unreadable.
  • The ineffable in poetry is almost always the unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Email encryption wraps a secure layer around messages and attachments, making them unreadable by anyone except their intended recipients.
  • (END VIDEO CLIP) FOREMAN: For the GIs in World War II it was V-mail, flimsy copies of letters filled with tiny almost unreadable type, but it was a piece of home, news of births, marriages, even the infamous "Dear John" letters. CNN Transcript May 19, 2007
  • Someone called it hippocampus, meaning "seahorse," what it resembled when the skull was opened to an arbitrary page, the dull grey text of the brain almost unreadable in the absent light. The Great Whatsit
  • With the gutter, I feel at least it has a usefulness even at its lowest level, at least it's entertaining; at its lowest level, literary stuff is unreadable.
  • This book risks being unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The typesetting shows problems as well, and the kerning and word-spacing in some lines is so awkward as to render the line almost unreadable.
  • His face, turned at an oblique angle from the camera, is unreadable.
  • The animal sculptures particularly benefit from this: those that are enigmatic and virtually unreadable in still photographs spring to life when viewed in the round. The Times Literary Supplement
  • For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
  • An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Although the young invited audience had been given a copy of the constitution, a large majority confessed that it was unreadable and incomprehensible.
  • The animal sculptures particularly benefit from this: those that are enigmatic and virtually unreadable in still photographs spring to life when viewed in the round. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The type on the map I was using was completely unreadable, and forced me to do the unthinkable: pull over at a gas station and ask for directions!
  • If we use absolute coordinates to place symbols on a map plotted for these scales, we often encounter symbology overstrike or, in layman's terms, an unreadable cartographic mess.
  • Which creates a very real potential that in zeal for privacy I could turn everything on my hard drive into unreadable mush.
  • Leslie's expression was unreadable, but he kept those hooded eyes on her back until he noticed Willoway's amused glance.
  • Trouble was, the bulk of the collection was unreadable: blackened, scorched and damaged, ancient treasures beyond the reach of human eyes.
  • All 8 Black Boxes were supposedly destroyed or haven't been recovered or were unreadable.
  • When I returned my gaze to Sebastian, his eyes were half-open and fixed on me in a quiet, unreadable way. Darkness Becomes Her
  • Certainly the rear number plate of the taxi had been unreadable, and no one could have positively id ntified the eccentric driver with the Saint; but Claud Eustace Teal had seen him and spoken with him in Bond Street only a few minutes before the disastrous events which had followed, and Simon was only too familiar with the suspicious and uncharitable grooves in which Mr. Teal's mind locomoted along its orbit. The Saint in Action
  • Then, the system starts doing some file transfers, and the display becomes completely unreadable.
  • He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
  • Alanna looked at her, eyes unreadable, then without a word glided toward the private dining room. Lord of Chaos
  • For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
  • For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
  • An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • In fact, the entire story was disjointed and unreadable.
  • She rolled toward him, her expression unreadable as she stared at him for several heartbeats and then finally shook her head. Dragon Warrior
  • Teesside Magistrates Court was told that trading standards officials also found foods whose use-by dates were either unreadable or non-existent.
  • She remained as still as stone, her expression as unreadable as the message in the stars behind her Dwarven veil.
  • Her handwriting is chicken scratches, illegible and unreadable.
  • I find her work for the past fifteen years to be quite unreadable, fourth-rate science fiction.
  • Her features unreadable, she deliberately replaced the glass on the table before her, leaving it untasted.
  • For example, dust on the recording surface can result in portions of the data that are unreadable.
  • But then my screen freezes and the display is unreadable.
  • - The credits can be truly interlaced to make them run faster without being juddery and unreadable, thus leaving more room for the show. Doom9's Forum
  • It is widely agreed in publishing circles (on the basis of countless years of experience) that many of these manuscripts will be unreadable, unpublishable junk.
  • His attention caught by the news, Skylar glanced up from his unreadable handwriting and stared at the front of the classroom, knowing who would be standing half hidden behind the teacher.

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