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How to use the word errant in a Sentence?

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China's electricity demand has been incredibly flat in the past, because so much of it has come from the industry, not from households or services. Now with air conditioning becoming more common, the demand is becoming higher, at the same time, rains are becoming more errant. Heavy rains and periods of drought make hydropower much less reliable as a source of available capacity during those peaks.

Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bottom line, [an] 'errant' Russian strike hitting [the] US embassy is quite plausible.‘A shot across the bow’ is also possible, in which the Russians could target the part of the embassy that is not very populated, thiswould be a message to the US to stop providing weaponry to Ukraine. But it’s all risky and the threshold is very high for this decision.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Texas Education Agency vindicated me last week by calling for an investigation into Superintendent Azaiez, the TEA should expand their investigation into the errant board members who weaponized the police to silence me.

Jeremy Story

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well both of those statements are errant nonsense. There is ample evidence, overwhelming evidence. Any jury would convict in three minutes flat that The President betrayed The President country by breaking the law.

Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We can't deny people a right to vote because they choose to put Xs in some, oval, circle some names or fill in some ovals, it says you can't cross out an errant vote with some marking, you have to use words.

Marc Elias

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We had some really errant prints out there that stood that shouldn't have stood.

Reggie Browne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I thought it was going to be a really good knock on the front nine, but a few little errant drives meant the rough got its payback on me today.

Andy Sullivan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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