How to Use unreadable in a Sentence

unreadable

adjective

• His face was half hidden by his famous beard, his eyes were unreadable, and his voice was soft.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
• The goal was met, though there were concerns that too many were dirty, outdated or unreadable.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• To some extent, the script takes pains to keep Alma unreadable.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
• But they were presented so briefly as to be nearly unreadable.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
• Perhaps the stop sign was marred by graffiti and rather unreadable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The four were in a truck when a patrolman pulled them over for an unreadable temporary tag.
  — Robert Garrison, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• In some cases, postmarks may also be faint or unreadable.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
• The serial number on the side of the gun was scratched and unreadable, police said.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2019
• But what about the uncertainty of a faint line that may seem almost unreadable?
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2022
• The texts may be unreadable to most visitors, but what’s clear is the reverence with which they were made.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• There’s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable, obscure, and self-serving of such memoirs.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2021
• And some of it (those transcripts, Jack and Neal high and babbling) is unreadable.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• The excitement of finding something no one else had would go unfelt, or would at least be unreadable.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• The revolver’s serial number had been ground off and was unreadable.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2024
• Your own files would struggle to make the transition with you—many would be forever unreadable.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Bottles of wine in this region of wineries were covered in mud, their labels unreadable.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2021
• Along the way, the message is unreadable, protected from prying eyes.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• Because the telemetry was unreadable, experts on the ground could not easily tell what went wrong.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
• Police stopped the man’s car because the license plate, in a corner of the rear window, was unreadable.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
• Your expression is unreadable, under the straw hat brim in the deep midsummer shade.
  — Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• The spelling was haphazard and the prose almost unreadable, with no paragraph breaks.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2018
• In a torrent of expletives and all caps, the chat lauds his accomplishment at an unreadable clip.
  — Patricia Hernandez, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
• Around him, others move through the wreckage, their expressions unreadable.
  — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
• Although many of these books are unreadable, dictator lit happens to run the gamut of quality.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
• The trouble was that many ballots were arriving without postmarks, or the marks were unreadable.
  — Vanessa Swales, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2020
• The man was a passenger in car police had pulled over because the license plate was obstructed and unreadable.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2021
• The sheer magnitude of the book and his treatment of the pages as sculptural material make the book unreadable.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 20 Sep. 2022
• But some experts fear the history that may be lost forever in unreadable documents in the trove.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
• That means the data is unreadable to the chain of companies and providers that exist in the path between you and the recipient.
  — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
• The vehicle is seen in a video recorded by someone who witnessed the incident, but the license place is unreadable.
  — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020