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US
/ˌɪnˈtɛɫədʒəbɫi/
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ADVERB
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in an intelligible manner
the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly
How To Use intelligibly In A Sentence
- While some muttered unintelligibly, others just didn't have any answer.
- The singing, both individual and choral, is tuneful with words both intelligibly and intelligently sung.
- He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment.
- As I made my way up 2nd Avenue, I noticed a raving lunatic weaving all over the sidewalk yelling and screaming unintelligibly.
- Without God to relate the facts and laws intelligibly to one another, knowledge is impossible.
- He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper. CHAPTER XX
- He's kinda got a similar guitar strum, one dancing leg thing going for him, as well as the singing completely unintelligibly thing, too.
- The terms chiming, tolling, and peal-ringing, though now generally understood, do not intelligibly apply to the few regulations about bells which occur in the canons. Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- From the way he reacted (not at all), I'd say he was asleep… except for the fact that he kept mumbling angrily and unintelligibly to himself.
- the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly