Sentence examples for couldn't be read from inspiring English sources

Many passages couldn't be read.

"He said the arrows were too dark, and the guitars couldn't be read from the stage," Miller said.

By Emily Nussbaum Draper was an immediate hit with audiences: the man who could read symbols but couldn't be read himself.

Alienware insisted that it must be a defective DVD, even though it worked on a friend's computer, but a replacement disk also couldn't be read.

These people found that the games they bought permanently disabled their DVD recorder drives, or that their travel books couldn't be read while travelling, or that the videos they purchased wouldn't play back on their monitors or in their classrooms.

(Urban legend tells of a couple in hysterics at the airport: the woman had burst into tears when her boyfriend sat on the wrong side of her and their T-shirts — featuring a slogan that spanned their chests — couldn't be read properly).

This has been an important and productive understanding – I couldn't be typing and you couldn't be reading without that kind of information science – but it came at the price of breaking "information" entirely away from meaning.

Patrick sees his wife laboring through the work, as bedside reading, and says, "You couldn't be reading that book unless you were having an affair with the author".

The only problem with these ballots is that they could not be read by machine.

*An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that much of the Archimedes Palimpsest could not be read using MSI.

I may well be one of those thousands of voters whose punch could not be read by the machine.