Definition of Garble

garble (noun) - anything that has been sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been removed

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How can garble be used in a sentence?

  1. He exchanges garble with agents in mission control.

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  2. The chorus sings a constant refrain of melodic garble.

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  3. [Warning: Lengthy post and legal garble follow after the break]

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  4. I'm so poor baby, I have to lean up against the fence to garble (?)

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  5. One is that this was a total garble, and there's nothing at all to it.

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  6. Unintelligible garble while Sam's voice consults Anton's, then Philip's.

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  7. Is there intrade odds for which candidate's name Brokaw will garble most?

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  8. Is there intrade odds for which candidate's name Browkaw will garble most?

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  9. Sorry for the garble, I meant to point out that of the two reader comments:

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  10. I turn on my digital recorder, but can only make out a static-charged garble.

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  11. The low garble of the TV in the outer room, where Mo was no doubt keeping watch.

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  12. (Click here to view an example, though the accompanying text is a bit of a garble.)

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  13. Ther was enough the garble, bad grammar and strange sentence construction with Dubya.

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  14. The truly odd thing is that buried underneath her garble-speak is buried a salient point:

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  15. Because Offit refuses to garble the message, fellow scientists say, he is the perfect target.

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  16. Does Granholm have to intentionally garble sentences and spew forth right wing talking points?

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  17. To view all comments: just garble added. by Philip Dennany on Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010 at 3: 31: 11 PM

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  18. If she stays together she might be able to pick up enough to garble words for 90 seconds + 2 minutes.

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  19. Now all this garble I've just layed down amounts to one major thing, I don't know what to do with myself.

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  20. He also seemed to garble the lyrics at one point, but the judges were so harsh they didn't bother to mention it.

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  21. The MSPs were not the most educated types and the Official Report staff had to un-garble their words every night.

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  22. Detailed media reports begin to sound like Charlie Brown's teacher, an incomprehensible garble that's over our heads.

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  23. Wes looked at the TV, with its continuous stream of garble about ETI's and speculation about what was coming, and grinned.

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  24. He may garble words as he did this week, confusing "devaluation" with "deflation" and sending the Japanese yen into a nose-dive.

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  25. Weak AM radio transmissions can be heard through oceans of interference that would garble the checksums of digital communications.

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  26. Once again, there's no other way to describe this attack other than to call it "loud noises!" amounting to schizoid, nonsensical garble.

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  27. Adam Brandon, press secretary for Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, really did garble five words from Mao to praise the National Tea Party Convention.

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  28. Exactly, the more easily reported boneheaded maneuvers by McCain-Palin the better -- for Dem stress relief and to garble the Republican message-of-the-day.

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  29. It helps me to understand the school better, and it makes the children smile when I greet them, no matter how much I butcher the pronunciation or garble their names.

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  30. Ray Gorman's response is the kind of garble you hear executives spout when they don't know what they're talking about, or simply trying to BS someone who doesn't know what's going on

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  31. One day on the "Boomtown" police-station set, the cinematographer couldn't get his cameras to synchronize with the squad room's computer monitors, yielding an annoying, rolling garble.

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  32. When Google threw some of its gazillion dollars into its own Google Language Tools service, garble-fans feared that the zany poetry of imperfect web translation would be a thing of the past.

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  33. But things being the way they are, the announcement came in a cryptic statement from BP that was so shrouded in techno-garble and caveats that its huge significance was perilously close to being lost.

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  34. In a series of Tweets, Michael -- who turns 50 on Sunday -- told his troubled daughter that estranged ex-wife Dina had to "put the 'garble' aside and get on the same page" and join them all in therapy.

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  35. Whilst listening to all the radio punditry garble on about vice-presidential choices, I was reminded that Dick Cheney was put on the committee to find a running mate for George W. Bush, and came up with ... himself.

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  36. Like nearly everyone from my generation, and the one preceding it, we began by hating Cosell -- his sneering egoism, the pompous self-congratulatory harangue that fueled an incessant rambling myopia never failing to garble our sports viewing experience.

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  37. Last month pop singer Lady Gaga caused a stir by urging young Malaysians to push back against local radio stations that garble the line "No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian or transgendered life, I'm on the right track, baby" in her song "Born This Way."

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  38. If they take a story from the sacred books, they garble it without mercy, and take sad liberties with the text; but they do not deal in descriptions of the agreeably wicked, or ask pity and admiration for tender-hearted criminals and philanthropic murderers, as their betters do.

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Tips for Using garble in a Sentence

You may have an easier time writing sentences with garble if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.

Frequent Predecessors

Words that often come before garble in sentences. For example: "to garble" or "a garble"

  • to
  • a
  • and
  • the
  • or
  • not
  • can
  • of
  • would
  • will

Frequent Successors

Words that often come after garble in sentences. For example: "garble the" or "garble of"

  • the
  • of
  • .
  • and
  • it
  • a
  • his
  • their
  • in
  • your

Associated Words

Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.

  • bean
  • animals

Alternate Definitions

  • garble (noun) - refuse separated from goods, as spices, drugs, etc.: in the following passage applied to a low fellow. compare <internalxref urlencoded="trash">trash</internalxref> in a similar use
  • garble (noun) - refuse; rubbish
  • garble (noun) - impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called <altname>garblings</altname>
  • garble (transitive verb) - to sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt
  • garble (transitive verb) - to pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
A sentence using garble