Sentence examples for discernible words from inspiring English sources

Though we pretended to the contrary, she had no discernible words beyond "dada" and she seemed to be increasingly locked inside herself.

She sings no discernible words — it's as if she were speaking in tongues.

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1. perceptible by the senses or intellect 2. capable of being perceived clearly 3. capable of being seen or noticed The word discernible has appeared in 148 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 7 in "Stoking Excitement, Arenas Pump Up the Volume," by Alan Schwarz: DALLAS — It was only the pregame show.

As the ear-splitting cacophony rocked American Airlines Center before a recent Dallas Mavericks playoff game, the team executive Martin Woodall whooped gleefully over the din: "My clothes are shaking!" His words were discernible only to a lip reader; their sound stood no chance.

And at the same time, the sacred cow of opera in English (where the words are rarely discernible anyway) has surely been overtaken by the use of surtitles.

Some words are more discernible than others.

I pointed out this problem two weeks ago to the Treasury Department; unfortunately, it has made no discernible attempt to tighten the wording or issue any kind of clarification.

The single discernible result is that a few words - belief, change, value, renewal - mean slightly less than they did a month ago, and there may have been a spike in ProPlus sales.

Though the Hymn's words apparently have no discernible meaning within the context of Spira, the lyricist and scenario writer, Kazushige Nojima, composed a small puzzle with the lyrics, using Japanese syllables.

His voice is rough & gravelly, yet the words he sings are easily discernible.