How to Use unreliable in a Sentence

unreliable

adjective
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  • And then he, too, is gone, as shifty and unreliable as his words.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
  • Even the words that did present themselves could seem odd and unreliable.
    — Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The staff warned me not to expect it again; supply was very unreliable.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Both movies open on a death — one real, the other a hoax — and seek to take us back through time with the aid of an unreliable narrator.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Much of what the two men say about what’s happening in the rest of their lives is unreliable, based in fantasy or in lies.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • If the eye is an unreliable narrator, what are we left with?
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • One of the most common is that the output of these systems is simply unreliable.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023
  • But the company does not use fact-checks to keep ads off of pages with unreliable or harmful claims.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But the game’s use of these gestures felt awkward and unreliable, and the experience was short and on-rails.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Rising sophomores Frankie Collins and Kobe Bufkin played bit roles for most of the season and proved unreliable beyond the 3-point line.
    — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In any case, the Giants are simply unreliable right now.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The reports have come from only a small number of users, most of them talking about it on Reddit, which can be an unreliable source.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The notion that there is some sort of immutable gold standard for truthful acting is deeply unreliable: cometh the hour, cometh the actor.
    — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Then the Rangers’ bullpen (which at first had pitched well in relief of starter Nathan Eovaldi) reverted back to its unreliable self.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • So far this week, the Diamondbacks have not pitched well and their defense has been unreliable at best and sloppy at worst.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
  • Jake Nolan was a very unreliable narrator of this event.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The bloodline can be an unreliable thing, and cruel sometimes.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As unreliable as he was unwieldy (at 25 feet long), Bruce was allergic to salt, named after a lawyer, and unable to float on his own.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But telling the world’s poor to live with unreliable, expensive, weak power is an insult.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • It was based on a police lineup and voice identification, which the claims board said has been shown to be unreliable.
    — Scott Bauer, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The Census Bureau itself says the numbers for Block 1002 and tens of thousands of others are unreliable and should be ignored.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Peter Van Sant: And, so, your bottom line is, is that this evidence is unreliable now?
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • During the trial, Gibbs had argued that his client was not the shooter and witnesses were unreliable.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And persuading homeowners to take the leap into solar isn’t an easy sell, even in places like Texas that have a shaky and unreliable power grid.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • On the driver’s side window was a huge, unreliable speaker hanging crookedly from a hook provided by the Newark Drive-In.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Past events, moreover, have shown it to be an unreliable steward of public order.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Still, his methods have proved unreliable in this new landscape.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • Such low figures have persisted for more than a decade, but experts say the data is unreliable.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Transportation can be unreliable and keeping a health care provider can be daunting while moving from place to place.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That diagnosis, the report alleges, along with the lithium treatment, could make Sneed an unreliable witness.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024

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