How to Use unpredictable in a Sentence

unpredictable

adjective
  • Life can be unpredictable and plans can change.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • War is unpredictable, and the tide may well change again.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • Of the rock stars on your show, who was the most unpredictable?
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Go with the flow, even when things feel unpredictable.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • It's been a wild and unpredictable year.
    Dan Pompei, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • So that is seen as, yes, unpredictable.
    CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Not quite curly, but not straight, wavy hair can be unpredictable and tricky to style.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This is a very unpredictable matchup that can go either way.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But this season sets up to be the most unpredictable in the last decade.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
  • So some of it was just a reminder that the world is unpredictable that way.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The name is in part a nod to the unpredictable nature of their sport.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Life is unpredictable, and the film gambles big to make that point.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • The races are more unpredictable.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 1 May 2026
  • Its taste is sweet to tart but always unpredictable.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Whether the no-tax-on-tips bills enter the fray is unpredictable.
    Bob Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Alon and his team had their own brush with the unpredictable while working on the study.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Like, say, 2-year-old kids, coal fires can be unpredictable and messy to clean.
    Linda Gassenheimer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Rudd is very poignant at the goodnights — the show is unpredictable, as is life.
    Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The people love fast cars and unpredictable odds.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
  • These spikes are unpredictable and can be extreme.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In Romine’s case, the last three years have been the most unpredictable of his life.
    Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And is the finale as unpredictable as the footage leads us to believe?
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
  • New York can be very unpredictable and has been this season.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Tsunami waves are unpredictable and flood the land like a wall of water.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Avoid what looked unpredictable.
    Victoria Chynoweth, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This year’s draft was as unpredictable as advertised with a slew of trades.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Bison are unpredictable and and can run three times faster than humans, the park said.
    Claire Cardona, NBC News, 29 June 2022
  • The unpredictable sounds like the kind of move that hasn’t been predicted for weeks now.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That said, this Bears season has been quite unpredictable.
    Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • His income is just as unpredictable.
    ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026

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