How to Use legible in a Sentence

legible

adjective
  • The document is not legible.
  • The exact dates of his birth and death were no longer legible.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • But even in that scenario, the small white text was still quite legible.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The line of the back of the legs became much more legible and the young man grew taller by an inch.
    — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 11 July 2016
  • How much change was truly coming was legible on the pop charts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The path that worked for people ten years older is no longer legible.
    — Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Your words don’t always have to be clear, and your face doesn’t always need to be legible.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The timestamp on each of the first two pages is not entirely legible.
    — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
  • There were two lines on the drugstore test stick, but the second was barely legible.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
  • Of course, that assumes the work is signed and the signature is legible.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Those inequities may often be legible across the shelves of a school library.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The markings appear in block font and are legible up to 20 feet away.
    — Outside Online, 23 June 2022
  • Behind her, a team wielding rollers smoothed the paint into a legible font.
    — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
  • But the signs of his eventual pivot were legible all along, at least to those who cared to read them.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • Etched aluminum switches on the steering wheel and dash look great, but are not the most legible.
    — cleveland, 4 July 2020
  • Etched aluminum switches on the steering wheel and dash look great, but are not the most legible.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2020
  • At the foot of the grave there are four votive candles, along with messages, still legible.
    — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • Now, the grass is green, and most headstones are legible, except for a handful of old ones.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • Two of the dog tags found were legible still, including one on which the phone number still worked, the post said.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The rules are so tiny as to appear like pin dots, but are legible under the lens of a microscope.
    — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The rules are so tiny as to appear like pin dots, but are legible under the lens of a microscope.
    — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The mural is still legible, but every letter of the piece has been marked with splashes of paint.
    — Robert Scheer, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The mural is still legible, but every letter of the piece has been marked with splashes of paint.
    — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2020
  • His exact words can’t be heard in a fan video of the encounter, but his menacing tone is legible.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The legible signature is a lost art, anyway, in the world of texting and email.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 July 2016
  • Toward the end of her life, much of the girl's once-neat handwriting was barely legible.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • There are moments when the technique results in a movie that feels too huge, too sprawling, to be legible.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Only then did the problem become legible to the room full of physicians.
    — Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • The paper was wet, but the writing remained legible.
    — CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Menswear Guy) for making the visual language of men’s clothes more legible to me.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025

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