How to Use unreliable in a Sentence

unreliable

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The bloodline can be an unreliable thing, and cruel sometimes.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This gave the defense an opportunity to try to make her sound unreliable.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Dalton has been unreliable this season and still often is too risk averse, holding on to the ball and leaving him susceptible to sacks.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But the solution wasn’t that simple: There are only a few key points in the human face that need to be changed to render facial recognition unreliable.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, a handful of health issues—such as joint pain, diabetes, and sleep apnea—have been linked with higher BMIs (again, an unreliable measure of health, at best).
    — Sarah Stark, SELF, 20 July 2023
  • But the agreement might strike a sour note among taxpayers, who have gotten used to an unreliable Avanti service marred by delays.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Mar. 2024
  • So starts this clever new whodunit with an unreliable narrator set in the middle of a family reunion at a ski resort.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Although solar can be unreliable (to say the least) in Norwegian winters, in the summer, the ship could receive 24/7 sunlight (at least, in its more northern routesm near the arctic).
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • The Carlos that Aurora and Lucia, two mild-mannered girls, know is unreliable.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, Fakespot has logged an increase in the number of negative or unreliable reviews for this product category.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The home electrification trend may seem to be out of step with the concerns homeowners have with the costly and unreliable electricity grid.
    — Chris Hopper, Fortune, 3 July 2023
  • The quarterback looks unreliable and the secondary is reliably bad.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Most pre-election polls, which have been notoriously unreliable, gave Milei a slight lead and put Massa in second place.
    — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The results, showing small declines in support for Ukraine, seem wholly unreliable but were passed along to the strategists’ Kremlin masters as measures of success.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Using less of these materials made the tests unreliable, the indictment said.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023

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