Sentence examples for deciphering words from inspiring English sources

Jeremiah, who had so much trouble deciphering words, deserved credit just for coming to school, Mr. Tocci said.

He said he picked up English largely from watching television commercials, deciphering words from the repetitive sales pitches, with soap and car advertisements bringing him fluency.

For human lip readers, context is key in deciphering words stripped of the full nuance of their audio cues.

I thought I'd be able to decipher words in the real world at a glance.

This uses phonics, a system that encourages children to use sounds to decipher words.

It allows the reader to decipher words newly encountered and permits the invention of spellings for new patterns of sound, including proper names (a problem that is formidable for nonalphabetic systems).

"In the back of my mind I've always loved languages, learning linguistics and being able to decipher words, and then I've always enjoyed this sort of competition," he said.

Rather than having you decipher words and numbers, Google's new captcha has you interacting with pictures.

Remember, do not do this to people who might get a very nasty shock or whose eyes can go blind due to extensive brightness or by squinting at the screen to decipher words.

Cohen recounts the exploits of the nearly forgotten Richard Lynch Garner, an American schoolteacher who in 1892 ventured to the rainforest of Gabon, where he built himself a cage named Fort Gorilla and began deciphering chimpanzee "words".

For centuries, their contents were a mystery because of the difficult of deciphering the words, written in ink made from blackened soot, from the surrounding papyrus, which was the same colour and texture having been incinerated by the volcanic fallout.