Sentence examples for garble from inspiring English sources

The word 'garble' is used in written English
It is a verb meaning to distort or jumble something so that it is not clear or accurate. For example, "The news report garbled the facts, making it difficult to understand what had actually happened."

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garble

verb

To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.

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So if two nodes tried to send packets of data to the hub at the same time, the resulting "collision" would garble both their transmissions.

Frank talk is also discouraged: radio stations opted to garble the lyrics to a popular Lady Gaga song, "Born This Way", which urges tolerance of homosexuality.

A similar irritation (minus the sweetness) is often felt by users of speech-recognition software, which still manages to garble and twist even the most clearly spoken words.

Ruta's little face as she stood in the water, trying to make sense of events and then garble a message to her dad back home, was a special moment.

And if only this were not a book that joked about Billy's lisping pronunciation of penis (the plural sounds like "penith-zizzes"), fetishized his bra wearing (instant overkill) or found something meaningful in the way characters garble sexual references that upset them.

We should proofread it carefully to avoid garble like this.

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This will stop the hacker seeing anything useful as it will all be garbled nonsense passing over the network.

So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to "dump" material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.

Can you work out what the garbled nonsense is supposed to mean?

But over the past few days the hackers, who appear to have gained access to the computers of every executive at the film studio, have released the entire email stores of executives, including the first, garbled, threat.

Some conspiracy theorists even fret that the Americans could go after Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.Usually smooth-speaking ISI men have been giving garbled accounts of what Pakistan was up to.

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