How to Use garbled in a Sentence

garbled

adjective
  • The guard spoke into his walkie-talkie, and a garbled sound came back out.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Leave aside, for a moment, the garbled metaphors and syrupy language.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 May 2024
  • Jackson and his partner didn’t think much of the garbled threat.
    — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Half awake, Jason’s words came out garbled or too low for anyone to hear.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
  • But some transmissions were bound to get lost or garbled.
    — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2013
  • With each passing day, the signal grew weaker and the sentences more garbled.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Ahead of the game against Poland on Nov. 22, the audio on the broadcast as the national anthem played sounded garbled and robotic.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But Baumann's garbled speech prompted Simendinger to drive her to Mercy West.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Accents are vague, and lines are garbled and weakly deployed.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Weakness in her right arm and hand left her unable to feed herself, and her speech remained somewhat garbled.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • Europeans were grateful to the first President Bush, garbled speech and all.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2021
  • The mood in the train was calm, Gales said, even after a garbled announcement that passengers would have to wait to be evacuated.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the images also featured the Getty watermark, but with garbled text.
    — Matt O'Brien and Arijeta Lajka, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The whole scheme appears aimed at winning ad revenue from the page views of people who unwittingly land on the site’s garbled content.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • If Smeds had given in, the first — and last — sign of a problem would have been complete silence from Titan, broken only a by a few garbled bits of data.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2017
  • For example, a friend of my daughter’s told her that another child at their school had died from the coronavirus, a garbled story that turned out to be false.
    — Jessica Grose, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2021
  • The complaint says the competition that was harmed was between platforms (like X/Twitter and Facebook, for example) but that’s a bit garbled.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Overhead, dangling from a gigantic black helicopter, is what can only be a massive Bible, but the lettering on the book is garbled, and the cross on the cover has an extra arm.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Stefani will, toward the end of the film, get her own moment to play narrator, calling upon racist tropes and claims of piety in a brief, garbled attempt at defending herself.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2021
  • The gene has been riddled with crippling mutations that prevent it from producing a working protein, like a recipe with missing and garbled steps.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2011
  • By all accounts, the Twitter Spaces event was a debacle—the livestream was garbled and chaotic, forcing the campaign to relaunch from a different link, losing half the audience in the process.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, as in the earlier film, albeit in somewhat more garbled fashion, there are flashbacks to earlier events.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 July 2023
  • At the outset, the AI hobbyist decided to ask for the inverse of Marlon Brando, which produced what looked like a garbled tech company logo.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That sounds like a garbled version of Max Weber’s highly contestable claims about 17th-century Calvinism.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • Lee’s contested and subsequently revised four-week study of one camp in the Kalahari in the 1960s becomes, in Suzman’s garbled rendition, the history of our species.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Wayne didn’t know his son’s school district had been hacked — its files stolen and computers locked up and held for ransom — until last fall when the hackers started emailing him directly with garbled threats.
    — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • During the June 27 debate against Trump, the president struggled to maintain his train of thought and at times delivered garbled responses to simple questions.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • Others shared garbled images with distorted facial features or limbs coming out of their heads, an outcome Lensa warns about during the upload process.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
  • So, as ever with Bitcoin’s garbled trajectory, who knows?
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 June 2021
  • After more than an hour of garbled exchanges and futile attempts at reconnection, Richardson rescheduled the hearing at 2 p.m. Monday.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2021

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