unintelligible

Example Sentences

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As last year’s wildfires multiplied, still 0% contained, field reporters — tasked with articulating the unintelligible on camera — grieved alongside Los Angeles in real time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Properly gauging product categories, individual relations, and cost calculations takes up a whopping amount of pages, complete with all kinds of jargon unintelligible to the lay consumer.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2025

Casual viewers might have agreed more with Samuel L Jackson's plea for Lamar to keep it light; especially as some of his more densely-written lyrics were rendered unintelligible by the stadium's cavernous echo.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025

For example, during a rally in Montana on Friday, Trump appears to “glitch” and pause as he searches for words and then makes unintelligible noises and strange utterances.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024

As soon as the whole company was assembled, standing in a wide circle round Treebeard, a curious and unintelligible conversation began.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien