Example sentences for: predictable

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

  • Written by The Commitments ' authors Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, the film isn't about making fun of aging rockers as much as it is about rekindling old friendships: "winsome if entirely predictable" (Eric Brace, the Washington Post ). (Download the trailer here.)

  • By the 1980s the positions had grown predictable ( Ms. was pro-abortion, pro-day care, pro-ERA, pro-welfare rights, pro-clitoral orgasm).

  • If the October stock slump were regular and predictable, investors' rational reactions would tend to counteract it.

  • This created a predictable (and justified) uproar at the paper, which caused the publisher, Kathryn Downing, to apologize and mumble some nonsense about how she was unfamiliar with newspaper etiquette, which encouraged reporters and editors at the paper to push editor Michael Parks to assign a story about the whole fiasco, which he eventually did (to David Shaw, the paper's Pulitzer-winning media critic).

  • 22 The innovation was predictable.


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