Example sentences for: volatile

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

  • And because the value of an option depends positively on "volatility"--the uncertainty about the future value of the underlying asset--the rational way to maximize the value of that option is to invest the money in the riskiest, most volatile assets you can find.

  • The volatile and fascinating history of the whole area means that no two islands are identical, although similarities do exist.

  • This volatile discontent may be the reason that, as anthropologist Laura Betzig has shown, polygamy and authoritarianism have gone hand in hand.

  • Using this assumption, the pharmacokinetics of any inert volatile solute is completely determined (as a first approximation) by just 2 parameters: the water/air (Kwair) and oil/water (Kfwat) partition coefficients.

  • Madrid soared onward and upward, increasing nearly eightfold in population; Spain’s fortunes as a whole were more volatile.


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