Sentence examples for decipher a word from inspiring English sources
In 2007 he sank himself into the subject, reading a stack of books (like David Foster Wallace's "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity") and attending academic lectures where he could barely decipher a word.
You would expect the public address system in a £700m stadium to work but no one around us could decipher a word throughout the game, and yet under the stands it was loud and clear.
It was about a bullied orphan who left boarding school to live in a haunted house and marry a black-haired man, and though now and then I had to ask my mother to decipher a word, I was enthralled.
When character recognition software fails to decipher a word scanned in a book — when the page is yellowed or the letters are smudged, for example — Mr. von Ahn's project makes it part of a captcha.
Volunteer tutors were required to watch a one-hour Web seminar and read a 20-page guide to basic reading skills, such as "chunking" groups of letters together to decipher a word, or using pictures to help get the gist of a story.
Cadaverous and long-limbed, he had a tendency whenever he spoke to wave both arms around in spidery disjunction, concluding by planting the back of one bony hand against his lips and mumbling through it so I couldn't decipher a word.
If you're having a difficult time deciphering a few words (or many words), check out the Nadsat glossary website listed under "Sources and Citations".
But Dr. Daniel spent years in excavation and research, and finally succeeded in deciphering a four-word inscription found on a jar.
He succeeded in deciphering a few words, including salāgalalasayanara, ya-āmānavana, kesarabharala and yadalama, but was unable to identify the language in which they were written.
Even if you can't decipher every word of the weekly YouTube show "Journal Rappé" — part music video, part news broadcast delivered entirely in French and Wolof by two Senegalese rappers — it's worth checking out.
