How to Use garbled in a Sentence

garbled

adjective
  • And in between, garbled Irish mumbling.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the core messages can get garbled if the media can’t keep up with the intended meaning.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This story was updated to correct a garbled sentence.
    — Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union, 2 Feb. 2026
  • At one point, Alex started sobbing hysterically and blurted out a garbled statement.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Even Trump himself—with his garbled speech and incoherent ramblings—makes his underlings seem more credible by comparison.
    — Sarah Longwell, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The front desk clerk exchanged passports for iron keys while also running a prostitute ring; peddlers roamed the premises hawking lacquer boxes and sports jerseys in garbled English.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Credit is due to the series' expressive, ever-adaptable Minions and their adorably garbled language, as well as Steve Carell's voice work as Gru, the supervillain at the heart of the story.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Each tableau is also illustrated with generative AI, resulting in freakish scenes rife with garbled text and hallucinated details, like a diminutive squad car parked inside a police station filled with surveillance feeds.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 24 June 2026
  • But in such situations the public messaging can become garbled, with people taking away huge ranges in snowfall, say from 4 to 18 inches, even though the experts see the high-end amount of 18 inches as a low probability, high impact outcome.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Pierre Huyghe’s Idiom, 2024, provides a similarly disarming experience, comprising a gold mask that recalls relics from ancient Greece, but which houses an artificial-intelligence program that generates garbled language in real time in response to sounds in the gallery, including visitors’ prompts.
    — Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025

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