How to Use instability in a Sentence

instability

noun

• Investors are worried about the current instability of the stock market.
• The patient has a history of emotional instability.
• Keep in Mind The pods can move in their slots, which creates instability for some plant types.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2023
• Phil Diehl was recognized for his reporting on the instability of the bluffs in Del Mar and the threat to the railroad tracks that pass nearby.
  — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Amid this stew of instability, Haiti faces a new challenge: Guy Phillippe.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• This instability has put the bridge’s proponents in the position of having to plead their case over and over again.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• Symptoms may include pain, swelling, or a feeling of instability or that the joint is locked.
  — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• The trick is to place a dense fluid on top of a lighter one to create a classic instability because the heavier liquid will push through the lighter one.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• The cause of the Northern Lights begin 94 million miles away with instabilities in the sun’s magnetic field.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• Niger was seen as the Sahel’s final bulwark against chaos and instability, the last regime standing.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The plane's instability caused the left wing to strike a light pole beyond the runway, resulting in significant damage to the wing.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
• Sometimes there’s a slur to her speech and a droop to her lip that suggest infirmity and instability.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• Now, we have been concerned about the risks of instability for -- for many, many months between Israelis and Palestinians.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• In other words, for some, gig work has become shorthand for instability and low wages.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• For the better part of the past decade, really, USC’s athletic department had been a picture of instability at the top.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Flashes of his adulthood show partying, fights and all the instability that comes with growing up.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• Its curved bottom mimics the instability of being on the water.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The pair embark on a steamy but quick affair that comes to a grinding halt when Dan notices Alex’s emotional instability, and tries to distance himself from her.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• Without jobs, having a lot of working-age people can drive instability rather than growth.
  — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 16 July 2023
• Despite the valuation instability of the past two years, UiPath’s early focus in the field of AI has paid off handsomely.
  — Truebridge Capital, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• That means this bout of instability may require a circuit breaker.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Its heavy bronze cannons—64 of them on two gun decks—had made the ship’s center of gravity too high, resulting in dangerous instability.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• Bones is the fourth of Hobbs' top advisers to leave the administration within the first six months, adding to instability at the highest level of government.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
• Two years on, the Southeast Asian country is being rocked by violence and instability.
  — Angus Watson, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
• Such instabilities, akin to miniature solar flares, can bring the plasma into contact with the walls, damaging them.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• In an era of instability in the real estate market, the luxury housing sector is king.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
• His wife, Bernice, said the instability of life since the fire and their sudden reliance on the government has made his final chapter distressing and chaotic.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• The only certainty, experts agree, is that the military’s prominent role in politics is here to stay — as is the instability that the country has been unable to shake.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• However, this is conditional on whether any instability occurs in the afternoon ahead of the cold front.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2024
• The good news is that their model is quite unlike our solar system, although Clarke thinks similar instabilities may exist here as well.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024