The foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an intelligible response. From Dictionary.com.
As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations for Trinity issue #45 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
I shall tell ye the reason briefly and intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Communicating intelligently and intelligibly is even better. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Exercise Might Just Aid What Ails You] Reference
The ability to prepare military sketches rapidly and intelligibly is. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The centaur brat got so tongue twisted that he couldn't speak at all intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [Faun & Games]
They should have calmed fears and gone at the economy intelligibly, piece by piece. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: The President and the Vigilantes] Reference
Under such circumstances, the Senate's judgment must speak clearly and intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [Trial Memorandum Of President William Jefferson Clinton] Reference
(I'll leave as homework the problem of figuring out how to state this more intelligibly.). From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Englishmen capable of writing and conversing intelligibly in that beautiful and useful language?. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
The only sense which we can intelligibly give to the idea of a divine Omnipotence is this -- that. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
The picture recorded by the eye has to be set down clearly and intelligibly with the utmost speed. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Colonel, I said, as intelligibly as my horse's rapid pace and my excited risibilities would allow. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
He had written hardly intelligibly for the last three years; and at present could not write at all. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is a judgement which is, and which can intelligibly be, made by people of all religions or of none. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
Jerry can't do the British accent at all, it's hard enough for him to speak intelligibly for strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Joyride] Reference
Colonel, I said, as intelligibly as my horse's rapid steps, and my own excited risibilities would allow. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
We do not judge him, we only wish to represent him to the eyes and to set him intelligibly before the reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
Those of you who share my concerns with this war must continue to voice our critique, intelligibly, tactfully and loudly. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Mike Honda: What's Wrong With the War in Afghanistan] Reference
The new drama can represent not only higher ideas, but can express them more intelligibly than that which uses words alone. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Now, we cannot intelligibly predicate an attributive of the abstract quality, or qualities, the possession of which it implies. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
A torrent of questions and incidents so assailed them that they could not intelligibly answer the one, or comment on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
The new iPod Shuffle succeeds in its leading innovation: It recites song and playlist information to you clearly and intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [iPod Shuffle review: Cool but compromised] Reference
We neither remember nor care anything for the past, except as the poet has made it intelligibly noble and sublime to our comprehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
The Perky Press Poodle was all offended that her stenotyping minions dared asking about the idiot's inability '- iterate' intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [Oops ��� White House Releases Bush's Pronunciation Guides] Reference
In 1705, Colonel Heathcote thus speaks of M. Boudet, the Huguenot preacher at New Rochelle: 'A good man, and preaches very intelligibly in. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In an ant-republic, laws are instinctively obeyed quite as implicitly as though they were intelligibly proclaimed to all of the emmet citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
Huxley describes the conversation of a man who had two and one half inches of his tongue preserved in spirits, and yet could converse intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The HEATH READERS enable teachers, whether they have much or little knowledge of the art, to teach children to read intelligently and to read aloud intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
Unfortunately, some men are not able to intelligibly explain the theory of base-ball, while others are so engrossed with the game that they do not care to be disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [Base-Ball How to Become a Player] Reference
The above is followed on the tomb by a long Latin inscription, which has been so mutilated by some modern Goth, or Goths, that it is impossible to decipher it intelligibly. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
I trust in my next article I shall be able to explain intelligibly to my readers even these extreme alterations in the condition of the primitive snow of the Alpine summits. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
The Senator was fascinated with the spectacle of a railway guard who could express himself intelligibly, to say nothing of the charm; he spoke of introducing the system in the. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
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