How To Use Predictable In A Sentence

Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
Other predictable starters included focaccia topped with portobello mushrooms with pancetta and garlic as well as bruschetta with poached plum tomato, ricotta and basil pesto.
The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable.

The news caused a reaction that was predictable. Times, Sunday Times
The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems.
These major die-offs will continue to occur at unpredictable intervals when the most extensive, persistent, extremely unfavourable snow and ice conditions prevail.
It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious \ "family values\" conservatives. Stephen Ducat: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray Their Principles Differently
The indie science-fiction movie is an unpredictable beast. Times, Sunday Times
If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
There is also high political risk resulting from the government's erratic and unpredictable policies. Times, Sunday Times
The music was obvious and predictable, and the lyrics were about as feeble as I've ever heard.
The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday from an apparent heart attack at the age of 69 - the official cause was "overwork" - was an old-school dictator, predictably unpredictable. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
The algorithms ran their determined courses, and our thoughts followed one after another, as mechanical and as predictable as the planets in their orbits.
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
The weather there can be a bit unpredictable - one minute it's blue skies and the next minute it's pouring down.
He was untamable and completely unpredictable, as though he was driven by an interior violence out of his control.
You have all the elements of a potential disaster in the making, speed, unpredictable elements, cold weather and mountains.
Public fascination with the romantic lives of our country's most powerful (mostly single) women is fairly predictable, train-wreck coverage that ranges from whispers of lesbianism to reports of so-called bitchy behavior to completely de-humanizing or hyper-sexualized commentary involving pantsuits. Maegan Carberry: Finding a Man's Love in a Man's World
The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
By comparison, the reveal of the big villain comes off as both predictable and a little cardboardy. Archive 2010-04-01
The rest of the movie is a lot like that: moody and unpredictable, using lots of close-ups and jerky documentary-style zooms and fast cuts.
The future direction of the Irish property market has become as unpredictable as the weather.
The weather of course played a major role in the outcome in 2003, hopefully as the Grand Prix has moved to June there will not be such changeable and unpredictable conditions during the race.
The boys, Kevin and Fred, both predictable to a tee, settled for the Chicken Tikka Masala.
The father is so unpredictable that the only way the social services can visit is in the company of two burly security guards. Times, Sunday Times
He added that he was personally more interested in seeing close, unpredictable matches. Times, Sunday Times
The brown cloud shows man's activities are making climate change more unpredictable everywhere.
Every year the weather is most unpredictable for this event and this year's was no exception.
And then you realise that it's formulaic, predictable - and still almost to the point of perfection.
I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts.
Resource constraints meant that this recommendation was not followed, with predictable consequences.
Further muddying the picture, the spread of radiation has been fiendishly unpredictable, skipping some areas and showing up in concentrated hot spots elsewhere. Murky Science Clouded Japan Nuclear Response
These guys are taking all the fun out of what was once the most gloriously unpredictable of games.
The passion that underlay her opinions - which could seem arbitrary at times, and were often as unpredictable as her temperament - was doubtless genuine.
A sensible spelling reform as opposed to revolution of English spelling would eliminate the unpredictable pronunciations and the homographic heterophones, making English spellng as usable as French spelling. Today’s “Today” | Linguism
The remaining half hour contained a predictable level of domination from the league leaders.
The sagas attracted huge audiences, hooked on every clichéd twist and turn of the predictable plot.
Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.
This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.
The heather drags and catches at the feet, and the surface underneath is bumpy and unpredictable.
People who want to think ahead need to recognise that the world predictably changes in unpredictable ways.
The poll also suggested a big turnout in the most unpredictable election for decades. The Sun
Carol the righteous and totally predictable, demonstrates her bibliopolic difficulties ID floats a lead-lined trial balloon - The Panda's Thumb
I know from personal experience bulls are wild animals and can be totally unpredictable. The Sun
Two Helitacs and two helicopters are assisting more than 90 firefighters on the ground who are struggling to contain the bushfire, which is unpredictable and out of control between NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
With the region's unpredictable weather conditions, the team is hopeful of an exciting race.
What we cannot rely on any more is solidly predictable attendance at uninteresting concerts.
It's an unpredictable neoplasm--we see them accelerate, then stabilize, then accelerate again. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
Given the unpredictable nature of back problems, a longer layoff would come as no surprise. Times, Sunday Times
The results of this inactivity epidemic are predictable.
For those of you who like to photograph people, today's popular French word will be a nice change from the predictable "Say cheese!" approach. le ouistiti (we-stee-tee) noun, masculine Le ouistiti - French Word-A-Day
Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable.
We also had to face unpredictable things like machines not working properly. Times, Sunday Times
It varies a lot - you get waves and ripples which are unpredictable. Times, Sunday Times
It has every predictable, nauseous feel-good film cliche in it.
While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
Communication is difficult now because he is both deaf and has an unpredictable temper.
It was the only surprise in an otherwise predictable annual awards ceremony announced this weekend.
This was the only airspeed that provided a predictable and constant level of yaw that I could counter with full rudder.
Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
Nortel is a pioneer in Carrier Ethernet and has been an industry leader in the development of innovations for delivering predictable and reliable Ethernet services, using technologies such as PBB, PBT, PLSB, and Ethernet OAM. WebWire | Recent Headlines
They moved down the pipe and shifted in mostly unstable, unpredictable ways.
Stalls are typical and predictable with power on or off and sufficient warning buffet to prevent surprises.
Downsizing continues apace with radical change thanks to galloping new technology, while the current merger epidemic leads to unpredictable job loss.
Anything which does not contribute to the bottom line of national competitiveness-especially unpredictable commitments outside borders-should be avoided.
All this can be done within a short predictable time, with little likelihood of failure. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
During his four years in office, Mr. Chen has proven to be a mercurial and unpredictable leader.
So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
Nature and animals are pretty predictable. Times, Sunday Times
Cerruti has veered away from innocuous and terribly predictable suits; away from trousers, jacket, belt and shoes in perfect harmony.
Let's say the pw is 8 characters long, composed of an unpredictable string of numbers and/or letters in caps and/or noncaps. A Nagging Question about MN
They were soon in trouble on a pitch of unpredictable bounce.
'decumulation' -- the generation of a predictable stream of income for an unknown (but hopefully long!) time horizon. Fool.co.uk - Headlines
The weather is unpredictable and visibility can often be poor.
Less predictable, however, was the special appearance by a token white girl for some gratuitous booty shaking.
A predictable cut-price sale back to the City Ground ended a long nightmare.
To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable.
Some say this is just his way, pointing out that he has always been unpredictable, hypersensitive about criticism.
If diagnoses could be rendered mechanical and predictable, consistent and replicable, that would suffice. The Times Literary Supplement
This can lead to unpredictable effects since genes operate in highly complex relationships which are barely understood.
Many were wrecked because of inadequate knowledge or charts, poor navigation skills or handling but also as a result of the unpredictable seas and weather.
But the efficiencies created by precise spacing are so large, and the improvement in performance so predictable, that from nearly the moment Ebbinghaus described the spacing effect, psychologists have been urging educators to use it to accelerate human progress. Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm « Isegoria
So perhaps it is predictable that the less that survives from an original score, the more unconvincing seem the results. Times, Sunday Times
This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.
It is an absolutely unpredictable and very dangerous situation in the country. Times, Sunday Times
Obviously this sort of tendency leads a lot of people to the conclusion that you have to be really leery about urging ’something’ be done by the U.S. foreign policy establishment lest a certain militarist tendency capture that moral admonition for its own predictable purposes. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Genocide Prevention
Despite a predictable script, Jugnot is still able to play an immensely sympathetic character without being cloying.
They knew alopecia is an unpredictable condition and can come back without warning. The Sun
But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message. Times, Sunday Times
The pathologist's findings seemed predictable: a shrunken hard lump in the right upper quadrant of her abdomen, once a liver.
Its actions are in the strict sense unpredictable. Infinite in All Directions
Where the vines have marked vigour, the bunches which hang below the leafy canopy are in shade, with predictable negative effects on wine quality.
Czerny's music is eminently playable, predictable and listenable to in the same sort of way that Vivaldi's is eminently playable, predictable and listenable.
Dangerous seas and unpredictable weather patterns mean the journey is risky. Times, Sunday Times
Although he does a great job commentating on a fast and unpredictable sport its the blunders and one liners he will be remembered for.
The only away game of this period is at Gloucester who are eighth and utterly unpredictable. Times, Sunday Times
And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads.
- "Most SF of a certain vintage is contaminated by the Marxist notion that history is the sum of deterministic, predictable forces. Amazing Grace, you do me wrong to treat me thus discourteously
But in the realm where corporate aviation intersects politics, predictable battlelines are drawn.
A strong swell has built up on the East Coast due to a week of onshore winds making conditions more unpredictable than usual.
The snow had a predictable effect on traffic.
If this Laplacian determinism is accepted, nothing whatever can be unpredictable in principle. Emergent Properties
Changeable and unpredictable, it lacks structure, control and conformity.
All of the fight scenes follow a predictable course, with little or no surprises.
Monolingual, untraveled, and rather lost, Julia is taken in by Malcolm and becomes the catalyst for a not wholly unpredictable revelation.
He can be unpredictable, able to move swiftly round the ring and be elusive, but has the height and reach to stand and trade blows.
All this, of course, is predictable - heiress turns to feelgood charity work. Times, Sunday Times
The ultimate impact on both societies would extend well beyond the bombed areas in highly unpredictable ways.
I think the WWE's heavy reliance on predictable storylines and HHH will be its downfall.
What if something we take for granted, something utterly predictable, suddenly became unpredictable and chaotic and disordered?
The importance of the active non-proliferation strategy should grow in a stable and predictable world order.
Some are just plain streaky and unpredictable.
Their interpretability, however, must not be exaggerated; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance.
We need to reset the variables excluding anything unpredictable and run the script once again.
I liked the idea of the movie, with the whole ‘matrix’ thing, but in some parts I found the plot weak and predictable.
Britain's mewling and puking republican rump has had its day in the sun - as happens in an almost predictable cycle every other generation.
Now, if one adds criteria such as 'repeatably predictable observational consequences' etc one runs into a problem with regard to testing for the reality of conscious minds, since what's it's really like to be me — the totality of my qualia — plausibly is unique to me and is intrinsically not observable by anyone else. Darwin's God
The unpredictable Missouri weather lived up to its formidable reputation as it blustered all week.
Now, however, this is a risky and unpredictable situation and assuming that we have the best of airmanship and nothing else goes wrong, which is an assumption that you really can't make, there should be a very favorable outcome.
In March and April, the weather is much less predictable.
By one of those generous turns that make Davie unpredictable he nevertheless acknowledges what Thomas finally achieved, not scrupling to call it great poetry.
Because of the current shifts and perhaps unpredictable forces in today's labour market, these demands may seem unrealistic.
I like the campiness that comes with doing a show that's really unpredictable, and I think it's entertaining for the audience as well.
Either the winds were not right out on the line or they may have been what they call squirrely, not predictable, and the people out there in charge of them just did not feel comfortable taking that on today," said incident commander Mike Dietrich. Undefined
We live in uncertain times when change has never been so rapid or unpredictable.
He was all that she decidedly was not -- an adventurer, immoderate, unpredictable. DARE CALL IT TREASON
She'd be childlike, tempestuous and unpredictable.
The interiors are neither universal nor generic but specific, tailored, and unpredictable.
Results whether the fetus as predictable as possible to adopt the reasonable parturition in time.
The truth is that our fascist enemy is too predictable; let's not fall into the same trap.
Even minutes later, I cannot believe I posted this unbelievably predictable, sappy question.
The locals are portrayed as credible characters, albeit with their own set of very distinctive idiosyncrasies, rather than the predictable cardboard cut-outs who usually tend to populate such films.
Nothing is predictable in this astonishing novel, which expands on classic tales about selkie brides with unsettling imaginative thoroughness. Times, Sunday Times
From the earliest battles against swamps and unpredictable tides, to the occurrence of fatal wharfside fires, the history of Port Adelaide is infused with misfortune and tragedy.
Its broader, unpredictable political, military, economic and geostrategic ramifications will be felt, analysed and disputed for years to come.
The unpredictable, sporadic nature of storms on an open coast presumably render exposed shores unstable in this respect.
Predictably they were trolled; less predictable was the rush of voices rallying to their side. Times, Sunday Times
Sixty-four percent of those polled said their pets tried to hide in a safe place, 56 percent said they whined or cried, 52 percent said they became hyperactive, erratic or made unpredictable movements, and 36 percent said they barked or meowed persistently. Do Pets Have A Sixth Sense?
And there was a predictable reaction. The Sun
And there is the added stress of unpredictable guards making unforeseen demands. Times, Sunday Times
Such predictable cash flow is ideal for making regular payments on loans, which private equity firms typically use to finance part of their buyouts.
The onset of menopause had already begun, with its strange hot flashes, moments of daffiness, and totally unpredictable menstruations. The Garden of Rama
The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees.
She has become the dotty and unpredictable aunt that you roll your eyes about but can't help liking somehow. Times, Sunday Times
It's been a year of predictable stoushes and controversies that seem to have come out of nowhere.
But Pyongyang's fulfilment of its promise to carry out the test suggests that the world may have to get used to a new and unpredictable nuclear power. Times, Sunday Times
Nature and animals are pretty predictable. Times, Sunday Times
The outcome of the ensuing battle at the bridge was predictable. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
Since impairment depends on market values, it will be much less predictable than straight-line amortization based on acquisition price.
You might encounter schedule changes, unpredictable weather delays or any number of travel glitches.
By combining two squeezed entities, scientists can "entangle" them, linking their properties in predictable ways that are useful in quantum computing and communications. Nano Tech Wire
The unpredictable and random threat of such a devastating machine is at polar extremes from its diminutive replica, which offers an intimate view of a closed and isolated community of sailors.
Meanwhile coin tossing is in fact a predictable process following predefined physical laws of motion and isn't really random at all.
The danger of decay in liberalism is greatest when the response of the liberal to the issues of the day is so automatic that it is predictable. Waldo Jaquith - “Browbeaten By Humpty Dumpty, Or Quitting the Liberal Label”
Sure, it is atmospheric but it is also intensely predictable.
There have been many other dissenting voices protesting the sale of public sector companies but these have been largely disregarded as the predictable ravings of the lunatic Left.
He hinted that SMG was unsurprised when relations broke down with the unpredictable star whose celebrity they had tried hard to harness over the previous 18 months.
Maybe she felt intimidated by their bald, shiny appearance - promising nothing but uncalculated, unsystematic and unpredictable rolling movements, which only seemed to increase the possibility of her becoming a loser in the game.
A number of the stories are downers in which Faustian bargains of one kind or another produce predictable results.
It is however predictable that she is particularly good at elucidating the influences on Joyce of all the female members of his family and those of his patrons and benefactors.
This reaction was entirely predictable and understandable, albeit a bit extreme.
It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious "family values" conservatives. Stephen Ducat: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray Their Principles Differently
Predictable, vacuous and with a tongue in as many cheeks as possible, Desperate Scousewives is a show that leaves you feeling just that bit grubbier for having guiltily enjoyed it. TV review: Desperate Scousewives; The British Woman on Death Row
Even programmes such as Coupling, a laddish show loosely based on Friends, tread a predictable path, well within acceptable limits.
The clinical course is unpredictable; spontaneous regression may occur following a few treatments.
We live in uncertain times when change has never been so rapid or unpredictable.
A fair few are competent although scarcely memorable, a mite predictable, but all the books contain stories that could at least be considered for any ‘best of’ collection.
But the most exciting and unpredictable unintended consequence of disciplinarity is the opportunity it creates for poaching, which happens when one discipline opts out of the gentleman’s agreement allotting certain questions to certain disciplines and starts answering questions it is not even supposed to ask. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The necessity of interdisciplinary poaching
The predictable result was an accelerated degradation of the ecosystem.
It's there that he really, finally becomes stuck for developments unless he professionalizes...or marries, which is where they finally went, because you could at least keep the money troubles and the unpredictable professional life going. Me vs. the Spider-Marriage | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Causal attribution helps us feel better by giving predictability to an unpredictable world, but our attributions are not always completely accurate. Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.: Do Musicians Have a "27 Curse"?
The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
Opposition to the proposal came from predictablequarters.
McEwan, one of the most bankable names in contemporary world literature, never goes in for the obvious or predictable narrative.
The concert was a predictable yawn.
Great teams are a confluence of many factors and by and large are an aberration, rather than the results of a predictable system. Times, Sunday Times
England's defeat in the third test match was sadly predictable.
But once all these types of stories cease to be published -- and features by their nature rely on the leisureliness of print reading and generous photographic layouts that lure in the semi-curious reader -- I worry we'll have lost the shared understanding and celebration of Chicago as an infinitely unpredictable, loving, misguided, charming, ugly, pretty and charismatic city. David Murray: The Socially Catastrophic Demise of the Light Feature Story
Black and white do not exist, they creep into the story due to the unpredictable magic of film processing or defective film stock.
Software agents are programs that cooperate with each other in unpredictable environments without human intervention.
In the hands of a competent architect it can be an orderly process, but it rarely consists of a linear sequence of steps leading inexorably toward a predictable result.
But it has made international affairs a volatile and unpredictable realm.
The team thinks using a fullback makes the offense predictable.
Instrumentally, it's audacious, with trumpets, bouzoukis, violins and music-boxes weaving unpredictable paths through the guitars and drum programmes.
The economy's sudden about-face serves as a dramatic reminder that such changes can be both large and unpredictable, rendering budget projections obsolete before the ink in which they are written has begun to dry.
Sales are also worryingly at the mercy of our unpredictable weather. Times, Sunday Times
Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry.
The plot was far too predictable, and the twist in the end was just not enough to make this film "watchable". Sound Off: Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli - Your Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net
Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
While in the Drosophila embryo fate mapping studies allow the construction of two-dimensional maps of the early gastrula with distinct and clearly separated anlagen, in the fish the fate of cells within particular gastrula regions is much less precisely predictable. Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes
The easy (and evidently predictable) choice here for me would be Buffy but there’s an undeniable greatness in AHP as well. 10 « February « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
The professionalism of the recent past, the thing that made the late '90s art world seem corporate and unsafe, is morphing into something less predictable, more homespun.
Use this ‘center balanced’ feeling as the base for your golf swing, and your ball striking will become more consistent and predictable.
The disease follows a highly predictable pattern.

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