DECIPHER in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for DECIPHER, such as:
1. Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
2. While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
3. First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
4. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.
5. Researchers are gradually deciphering the genetic structure found in the cells of organisms.
2. While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
3. First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
4. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.
5. Researchers are gradually deciphering the genetic structure found in the cells of organisms.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DECIPHER
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decipher
v. read with difficulty
v. convert code into ordinary language
Classic Sentence:
1 An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.
2 First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
3 Trenor, a little heated by his unusual flow of words, and perhaps by prolonged propinquity with the decanters, was bending over the latter to decipher their silver labels.
4 But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.
5 At first I had neglected them, but now that I was able to decipher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence.
6 The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
7 "Yes, indeed, to you; I succeeded in deciphering your name under the blood with which the letter was stained," replied Monte Cristo, amid the general outburst of amazement.
8 His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
9 Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
10 He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.
11 While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
12 Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
13 When deciphered it said: 'Wood for you.'
14 He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No."
Example Sentence:
1 Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decipher the scrambled message sent to him from the KGB.
2 One of Bond's first lessons was how to encipher the messages he sent to Miss Moneypenny so that none of his other lady friends could decipher them.
3 Researchers are gradually deciphering the genetic structure found in the cells of organisms.