How to Use unreliable in a Sentence

unreliable

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Williams’s mom said support for her son was unreliable, and that what her family really needed was a new and safer place to live.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• For a lot of restaurant patrons, waiting for a check ranks right down there with unreliable websites, noisy dining rooms and tight tables.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Some ovens can be unreliable at the low temperatures required for such a long cooking time.
  — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2022
• Now, 11 weeks in, the unit looks dysfunctional and unreliable.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The Botometer tool is unreliable, Twitter said in its filing.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Some went to root doctors who prescribed herbal abortifacients, an unreliable solution since the elixirs could be toxic to women, frequently fatally so.
  — Kali Nicole Gross / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• Her brain is essentially the unreliable narrator of her own reality.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024