How To Use Erratically In A Sentence

  • Note that the grooves in some wooden surfaces may cause the computer's mouse to behave erratically.
  • Several eye-witnesses saw Helen Verity, 30, driving "erratically" on a route in west Cumbria. Whitehaven News headlines
  • As I rode away, I noticed that the front disc brake still faded erratically.
  • You could have steam erratically hissing from its base, like a rocket about to take off. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was obviously upset and was driving erratically.
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  • Swallows, swifts and nighthawks, all pursuing flying insects, fly erratically.
  • Confronted in the lab with an infectious Latin merengue song, played at 116 or 124 beats per minute, Mathieu bounced tentatively and erratically as a multimedia addendum to the paper shows, representing Mathieu's movements with a dot. Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
  • He was obviously upset and was driving erratically.
  • Capitalisation is often omitted or used erratically, except for names.
  • Another allegation was that he rode a motorbike and quad bike erratically.
  • When the middle child married, and he was the only one of the three to do so, he brought his bride to reside in the tenement above the Orchard Street tailor shop, where, tilting first to one side and then the other (they ambulated more erratically than Can o" Beans), the Cohens daily performed their crab dance of life. Skinny Legs and All
  • Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically.
  • Featuring only Spencer Seim's erratically melodic guitar and Zach Hill's pummeling, rhythmically arrhythmic drums, Hella has enough energy to power a small town, or at least get a few folks convulsing in reaction.
  • Members of informal groups in work organizations usually have vague group objectives, and are less cohesive and behave erratically.
  • We had no trouble in seeing where we were going, no fear of falling into an open lead or of crippling ourselves against some unexpected obstacle, for with our useless goggles removed and powerful flashlight beams dancing erratically ahead of us as we jog-trotted along, visibility was seldom less than five yards, more often nearer ten. Ice Station Zebra
  • A week later a police constable investigated a report of a car being driven erratically.
  • economic changes are proceeding erratically
  • But before he had a chance to say anything else, the screen began flickering and wavering erratically.
  • The machine is working erratically - there must be a loose connection.
  • You could have steam erratically hissing from its base, like a rocket about to take off. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlike before, where the policy was regime change, every time the North Koreans acted erratically, which is their behavior pattern, the United States -- not only were they condemned, but the United States was condemned, because we indirectly got blowback. CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009
  • Swallows, swifts and nighthawks, all pursuing flying insects, fly erratically.
  • Clutching her hand to her erratically beating heart, she glanced around her.
  • Stuart Easton admitted to having ridden 'erratically' at times on his way to his first podium finish of the 2010 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship campaign at Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
  • There were around 100 people at the Blue Lagoon on Saturday and a number of them thought they saw a vehicle, which has not yet been positively identified, being driven erratically at the top of the cliff.
  • Now, a leading state Democrat says the governor has been acting "erratically" for some time. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009
  • He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet.
  • Cars, buses, pedestrians, mopeds and rickshaws weave erratically down the streets.
  • I nod slightly, causing my head to pound erratically.
  • Officers spotted the car, which was towing a speed boat on a trailer, being driven erratically.
  • The four-inch shellcracker dives to three feet on a straight retrieve, but it also excels as a twitch bait, darting erratically at the surface.www. blackdogbaits.com ESPNsoccernet
  • Unlike before where the policy was regime change, every time the North Koreans acts erratically, which is their behavior pattern, not only were they condemned, but the United States was condemned because we indirectly got blowback. CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009
  • He has behaved wilfully and erratically, and shows no hint of getting a grip on the country's problems.
  • He acts erratically, his judgment is poor - at times, dangerously poor.
  • The pressure squeezes and pulls at my chest so hard, so hard… so very hard, it is like you can feel the muscle fibers tearing and popping as my heart races and slows erratically. Admit-it Diary Entry
  • As his Swan Honda team-mate James Ellison begins his recovery from a broken femur, Stuart Easton reveals that he had to fight hard and ride 'erratically' at times to secure a podium finish at Thruxton at the weekend ... Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
  • Tyrese, who behaved, according to the chart, "erratically" (how, I wondered, was a father who rushes an infant to an emergency room supposed to act?), told the attending physician that the boy had been getting worse all day. Tell No One
  • One was moving very erratically, back and forth in a wobbly motion.
  • They are erratically distributed around the planet, and the gases they emit vary in outgassed particular matter.
  • The Office of the Inspector General in its parent department, Health and Human Services, said in June that the agency is performing erratically in policing recalls of imported foods.
  • He had caused no trouble and kept himself to himself, but had been behaving erratically for a few days in and around the flat.
  • It took off into the bright summer day and veered erratically around the trees and flowers.
  • As such, the choreography veers erratically between truly striking theatrical imagery and a surprisingly awkward inarticulation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary where his mood swung erratically.
  • Officers spotted the car, which was towing a speed boat on a trailer, being driven erratically.
  • This unusual mixture of musical styles can be a bit off-putting, as the album erratically loses and gains momentum from track to track.
  • As I rode away, I noticed that the front disc brake still faded erratically.
  • Driving erratically is a good enough reason — the cop “saw you” cross over the center line. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law
  • In London, the market was moving erratically as investors tried to gauge the impact of yesterday's outrages.
  • The risk of depression may increase again during the transition to menopause, when hormone levels begin to fluctuate erratically.
  • The machine is working erratically - there must be a loose connection.
  • By the time he wrote the letter, Nelson knew the four charges against him: unpremeditated murder for "erratically" driving the Humvee "at excessive speed," carrying a possible life sentence; lying about the looters, up to five years; threatening Burden if he didn't lie, up to three years. THE NEWS BLOG
  • Lyrical and elegant a prose stylist as he was, he never compromised the rigorous precision of his observations; he saw clearly, and described vividly what he saw, from the movement of raindrops down a window ( "the window screen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle invisibly solved, was inlaid erratically with minute, translucent tesserae of rain") to the effects of the '70s energy crisis on the lives of average Americans. The Alchemist of the Mundane
  • Swallows, swifts and nighthawks, all pursuing flying insects, fly erratically.
  • It's nature is to erratically move from flash point to flash point in an arhythmical manner.
  • Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically.
  • However, it would certainly confuse the fox, thereby causing it to run erratically as described.
  • The alert was triggered by bright lights in the sky that moved erratically, but reports claim that air traffic controllers at the Hohhot Air Traffic Management Bureau spotted the object on their radar. New China UFO Sighting Closes Airport (VIDEO)
  • It became clear that it wasn't a clear-cut hydraulics failure, as the gauge was reading erratically without the associated warning or caution.
  • Witnesses say the plane may have been flying erratically just before the crash.
  • On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair
  • An erratically fluctuating power supply can wreak havoc on any system and may cause it to hang or shut down spontaneously.
  • You have now finished making your pomander, and should now leave it on a windowsill in an erratically heated room for at least a fortnight.
  • They speak Saturnian (composed of odd looking English letters), and erratically use the words "boing," "ding," and "zoom". Mr. Saturn | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
  • Food was good if erratically portioned - my entrée was huge but main course was quite tiny.
  • Because it is not atomising the diesel enough, the fuel volume burns erratically and slowly as the flame burns through the large droplets of oily fuel.
  • He wore erratically laced army boots, and olive-green fatigues, and a heavy-knit dun brown sweater.
  • Most hollies are either male or female and need to have a nearby partner for good crop of berries to be produced, I suspect this is why ours crops so erratically.

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