Example sentences for: predictable

How can you use “predictable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The simple empirical relationship between the composition of codons and amino acids and their responses to changing genome composition suggests that these responses might be quantitatively predictable on theoretical grounds.

  • After a solemn but predictable modern-day prologue--an old man and his extended family trudge out to a cemetery to view row upon row of white crosses--there's a shock cut to the boats of Allied soldiers surging toward Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.

  • How refreshing to have candor in a review instead of the usual (and predictable) empty praise that passes for criticism.

  • It would be wrong to give away what happens next, but the consequence of the squadron's action is ham-handedly predictable and, morally speaking, takes the picture down a peg.

  • Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."


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