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How to use the word erratic in a Sentence?

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He came to my house after the election. … He was saying that the elections were fake … really speaking erratically. I didn’t feel threatened at the time, but I did feel like he was erratic.

Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The campaign lacks the ability to strategically plan because the candidate is so erratic, i just find it notable that outside of the press secretary's Twitter account, the campaign is mostly invisible.

Erick Erickson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This thunderstorm will produce all of the hazards of a normal thunderstorm : lightning, gusty and erratic winds, precipitation, etc., except much or all of the activity is hidden by the smoke column, firefighters on the ground may have very little warning before strong gusty winds sweep across an area.

Makoto Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When his political future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive, and threatening, he accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his' enemies,' when I have done no such thing.

Sheena Greitens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We noticed a little erratic behavior like these blinking lights that are on a sensor. When my family or any other family leaves or returns to their homes, they all start to blink, when the sensors are activated, loud music begins to play. He switches the music based on the family that is activating the music.

Jannique Martinez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't hate a poke on Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Rattler at 18-to-1 via FOX Bet, rattler has been a little erratic with the football in the early going, but he’s still completing 75 percent of his passes in an offense that should only get better with more reps.

Sam Panayotovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There were several recall attempts at Gavin Newsom earlier in Gavin Newsom term, but none of them really went anywhere until you had Covid, it was... the frustration with that erratic response that helped drive the recall to qualify.

Ron Nehring

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is our decision... to defend and secure our borders, our borders will remain secure and inviolable. We will not allow uncontrolled and erratic movements and we will not allow any attempt to violate them.

Michalis Chrisochoidis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the past decade, we've already seen that surface melting in Greenland has become both more severe and more erratic, as the atmosphere continues to warm over Greenland, events such as yesterday's extreme melting will become more frequent.

Thomas Slater

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gold has an erratic, volatile fluctuation, but it is a global security asset.

Marcelo Montenegro

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The aim is to buy between 2-4 tonnes of gold annually, in such a way that this can be refined and become monetary gold, gold has an erratic, volatile fluctuation, but it is a global security asset.

Marcelo Montenegro

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Our transit times have been wildly erratic.

Ben Muzzey

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Since June, we have consistently said we would participate in all three debates, under rules that The CPD established. Only the President Donald Trump campaign has been erratic and chaotic in their approach to this, demanding control over the selection of moderators, changes in the dates of the debates, an ear canal inspection rule, and all sorts of other insanity.

Andrew Bates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've got extremely steep, rugged terrain, we have many different drainages that are all kind of intersecting together and that creates these funneling effects of different wind patterns and creates more erratic fire behavior.

Lisa Cox

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've got to get a new guy. Our President is erratic, all Our President's succeeded in doing is juicing up the stock market. Now that's gone to pot because of the coronavirus.

John Dudley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I suffer from asthma and pain in my lungs. It feels like I'm being hit in the lungs, headaches, inflammation and pain in my throat. And also I have erratic blood pressure and heartbeat.

Dennys Nieto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

President Donald Trump has become so erratic and unpredictable that it's annoying for the markets, pence is a boring, conservative, pro-business Midwesterner.

Greg Valliere

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is definitely widespread recognition that Trumps behavior is getting worse, it seems hes acting more erratic more often. We cant tiptoe around it anymore. Weve got to talk about this.

Brian Stelter

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This was not a volatile, explosive, erratic-behaving kid, it's not like alarm bells were going off.

Chris Ayres

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This was not a volatile, explosive, erratic behaving kid, it's not like alarm bells were going off.

Chris Ayres

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's very necessary that the president hold his patience because nothing is going to happen if Pelosi doesn't want it to happen, somebody there in the White House that doesn't have common sense better not push the president to do something erratic.

Charles Grassley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Somebody there in the White House that doesn't have common sense better not push the president to do something erratic.

Charles Grassley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You can draw a straight line between Trump being unsteady and erratic and people clinging more to Joe Biden, 'Uncle Joe' is the safety blanket that many Democratic voters will continue to lean on as long as they view Donald Trump as the existential threat.

Joel Payne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We think that he is making this about himself and its really a campaign rally, we think that hes a big baby. ... Hes erratic, hes prone to tantrums, he doesnt understand the consequences of his actions. And so this is a great symbol of how we feel about our president.

Medea Benjamin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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