(1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
(2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
(5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
(6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
(7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
(8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
(9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
(10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
(11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
(12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
(13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
(14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
(15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
(16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
(17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
(18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
(19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.
Jumbled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Jumble
Example Sentences:
(1) British students now occupy fourth place in the ethnic jumble in Maastricht and their numbers are rising relatively fast.
(2) The surprise move came after Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when the US supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, jumbled the words, prompting Obama to follow suit.
(3) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
(4) Surely we could manage clothes banks as well, even if they do put jumble sales and charity shops out of business, which in turn are putting ordinary shops out of business.
(5) Within a year, however, its jumble of metal shops would be making bombs, the first generation of largely nationalist and tribal insurgents already being replaced by a more dangerous group of jihadi fighters.
(6) This statement is a jumble of buzzwords that makes no sense.
(7) He compounded the error by offering up a jumbled reply whereas Bill Clinton moved across the stage towards the questioner and spoke about the impact he had witnessed on people in Arkansas, where he was governor.
(8) Cascades of golden light overpower the sun, rising from a jumble of massive titanium forms piled on top of each other, part train crash and part explosion in a bullion vault.
(9) Promoted as a new way to make art accessible by removing the barriers between exhibition and mass consumption, it was criticised for turning art into a "jumble sale".
(10) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(11) In experiment 3, significant effects of familiarity were also observed when the task was to distinguish intact faces from jumbled faces.
(12) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
(13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(14) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
(15) In the living room beyond, a toilet, bathtub and sink are clustered among a jumble of tools and building materials.
(16) To the east, across a deep railway cutting and a jumble of industrial sheds, lie the terraced streets of Leyton and Stratford, home to some of London's most deprived wards, where over a third of children still live in poverty .
(17) Jumbling remained an effective variable even when the subject knew where to look and what to look for.
(18) The test is also useful in monitoring recovery from jumbling.
(19) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(20) But look beyond this thin crust of decent homes – a block-deep Potemkin facade of regeneration – and a sea of jumbled shacks continues to stretch endlessly into the distance.