How to Use garbled in a Sentence

garbled

adjective

• This prompt is used as a seed to produce a bunch of garbled text.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• The guard spoke into his walkie-talkie, and a garbled sound came back out.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Jackson and his partner didn’t think much of the garbled threat.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2020
• Leave aside, for a moment, the garbled metaphors and syrupy language.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 May 2024
• Half awake, Jason’s words came out garbled or too low for anyone to hear.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• Accents are vague, and lines are garbled and weakly deployed.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• With each passing day, the signal grew weaker and the sentences more garbled.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• And in between, garbled Irish mumbling.
  — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the core messages can get garbled if the media can’t keep up with the intended meaning.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
• 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
• This story was updated to correct a garbled sentence.
  — Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union, 2 Feb. 2026
• 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
• But Baumann's garbled speech prompted Simendinger to drive her to Mercy West.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
• Europeans were grateful to the first President Bush, garbled speech and all.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2021
• 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 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
• Meanwhile, as in the earlier film, albeit in somewhat more garbled fashion, there are flashbacks to earlier events.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 July 2023
• 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
• At one point, Alex started sobbing hysterically and blurted out a garbled statement.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• The fairy-tale forest evokes a little girl’s interpretation of the world, a garbled dreamscape of prohibitions and pleasures.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 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
• 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
• These are critical to removing the noise in a garbled signal from a satellite, as well as compressing images for more efficient data storage.
  — William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Four years ago, a little green stop-motion animation creature swept the internet with his garbled renditions of pop songs and passion for slicing garlic.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Even Trump himself—with his garbled speech and incoherent ramblings—makes his underlings seem more credible by comparison.
  — Sarah Longwell, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
• That sounds like a garbled version of Max Weber’s highly contestable claims about 17th-century Calvinism.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• The front desk clerk exchanged passports for iron keys while also running a prostitute ring; peddlers roamed the premises hawking lacquer boxes and sports jerseys in garbled English.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026