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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DECIPHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
decipher
 v.  convert code into ordinary language; read with difficulty
Classic Sentence:
1  An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
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
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
8  His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
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
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
11  While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
12  Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
13  When deciphered it said: 'Wood for you.'
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
14  He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No."
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
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.