How to Use indecipherable in a Sentence

indecipherable

adjective

• His handwriting is almost indecipherable.
• The notes can be as indecipherable and compelling as the songs themselves.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Even small circuits built, or evolved, in this way are nearly indecipherable.
  — Mark Changizi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
• My son was using maple syrup to trace an indecipherable design on the kitchen table.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Just a lot of shouting and crying and indecipherable tongues.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• One list dated back 27 years; others were marked by hand or indecipherable.
  — Raoul Rañoa, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The sentences, scrawled in his crabbed, indecipherable script, bend back on themselves, going nowhere.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• With an officer still on top of him, Timpa’s pleas fade to indecipherable grunts.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• The next call was barely a call at all — a faint, almost indecipherable voice tangled in the sound of rushing water.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
• There are neither crude jokes nor wise-ass anecdotes, only quick, indecipherable bursts of jargon.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
• Some are indecipherable and some don't offer much advice beyond the bare basics.
  — David Kender, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
• Much of what Hassona says is indecipherable.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• The indecipherable chanting in the background sounded like roars from the bleachers.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 13 May 2023
• Surprise registered on their faces, and a few indecipherable giggles floated from the back seat.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• There are only so many of those charts that start with enormous E’s which shrink and retreat down to an indecipherable mass of squiggles.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
• Less expected was a whole host of messages full of indecipherable hexes, pictures of demons, and cursed images of all kinds.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
• There’s a circle with indecipherable writing on it, suspended in the center of a larger gold shape.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
• The walls at first appeared to be covered with indecipherable inscriptions.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The fuzzy lunar feed was almost indecipherable on the small TV placed in the back of the empty theater.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
• Brown then screams something indecipherable into the camera before the video abruptly ends.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• There’s English and then there’s the language my daughters speak, which is as indecipherable to me as the sounds of a rotary motor.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
• The sound mix can be a little fuzzy wuzzy at times, dropping whole stretches of lyrics into almost indecipherable murkiness.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
• As the storm first gathered strength in the Gulf of Mexico, its future path was indecipherable.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Without the benefit of distance and height, the giant was indecipherable, reduced to bare lines and patches of chalk.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• The menu has pictures and descriptions of the dim sum options, many of which are otherwise indecipherable to firsttimers.
  — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
• Singer Jim James’ haunted, down from the holler falsetto was sometimes indecipherable.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Many of the labels aren’t in English, or the English is misspelled or indecipherable.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Many listeners felt the quality of Lennon’s home recordings left the singer muddy and indecipherable in the mix.
  — Dave Paulson, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The indecipherable red and white blotches were placed seemingly at random and, coupled with the contrasting shades of blue made for a god-awful mess.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2019