legible

Example Sentences

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A "for sale" sign is barely legible at the top, its letters faded by sun and salt air.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The figures’ gestures and facial expressions are instantly legible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Though the paper was wet, both letters were still legible, so Ms Brown began tracking down the soldiers' families in order to pass them on.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

The bandmates dressed in secondhand suits that made them look posh to some and, perhaps more damningly, refused to flatten their class identity into something easily legible.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

“There! you will find it scarcely more legible than a crumpled, scratched page. Read on: only make haste, for I suffer.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë