How to Use unstable in a Sentence

unstable

adjective

• The three go to war over the Lover, but their identities prove unstable.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Left to flow, the unearthed springs turn dirt roads into unstable slicks of mud.
  — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• This gives the air a negative charge and creates an unstable air mass in the lower part of the cloud.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 5 July 2024
• Heat forces air to rise and makes the atmosphere unstable.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
• Its shape — a puffy clump of hot gas somewhere between 20% and 40% of the mass of our sun — is also unstable.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
• Owen is up for the ten-hour surgery to reconnect the arm, but Colin proves to be too unstable to withstand the surgery.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 6 May 2022
• So, the storms are more energized, the wind shears more dramatic, and the jet streams more unstable.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• The teen's childhood was unstable, with the young teen moving to at least three rental homes in a short period of time.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024
• But the facts on the ground suggest that the region cannot return to its unstable prewar status quo.
  — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• The world felt increasingly unstable, and so did the world of The Real Housewives.
  — Jessica Pressler, Vulture, 3 June 2024
• This results in a top-heavy design that may feel a little unstable at times.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2023
• These are critical times for unstable programs in this meat-grinder of a league.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2022
• Over time, this can cause your joint to become unstable, which often leads to injury.
  — Tony Gentilcore, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• On that day, Kuroda touched one of those blocks to test whether the monetary tower the BOJ built might become unstable.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Sand is extremely fine, and a hole in the beach is unstable and will eventually fill in.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The researchers posit that an 83rd moon became unstable, and its orbit swung too close to Saturn.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
• Get ready for unstable weather this week in Greater Cincinnati.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 26 Feb. 2024
• We are taken by unstable dinghy to a grand wooden boat, where the captain gives us permission to come aboard.
  — Andrew Sean Greer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
• Cons If the power cord isn’t aligned properly, the bucket is unstable.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• Thinking any stranger could be an assassin is a pretty unstable way to spend a month.
  — Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
• The officer shown in the video then walks toward Morrison and the camera goes unstable.
  — Danny Freeman, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
• Biden’s election has bumped us back up to an eight, Marshall said, but a tenuous and unstable eight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022
• And the storm is unstable enough to generate thunder and lightning throughout the county.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• The vacant building is so unstable that crews can’t go inside, a fire captain said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• The advantage over Philadelphia is more unstable, since the teams are tied in the loss column.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• However, the nature of storm cells in the second batch may be more scattered than widespread, and the most unstable air may lie over the Bay and further east.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• But this is the year of Shōgun, and voters cannot go wrong with Tadanobu Asano, so hilarious and scary as the scheming, unstable Yabushige.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 July 2024
• Often chunks of the glacier become unstable, break off and produce ice avalanches.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022
• Those of us who are old enough to have experienced motorcycle sidecars in their time will testify to just how unstable the things were.
  — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024
• But the agency has been dependent on an unstable source of funding amid stopgap limbo, Mayorkas said.
  — Avery Lotz, Axios, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024