How to Use volatile in a Sentence

volatile

1 of 2 adjective

• The stock market can be very volatile.
• She is a volatile woman.
• The protests are increasing, creating a volatile situation in the capital.
• The pair’s volatile chemistry helps to smooth over some of the script’s weak spots.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
• The grid prices are volatile and can see massive spikes.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Traders are on the lookout for more turbulence at the end of a volatile week.
  — WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
• This area of the Indo-Pacific is currently the most volatile area of the world covered by the Navy.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• From year to year, kickers can be volatile, and no greater example has been Sanders.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Overall, the performance of GPS stock with respect to the index has been quite volatile.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Overall, the performance of HON stock with respect to the index has been quite volatile.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Tesla shares were down a bit under 2% in late-morning trading—not a huge move for a volatile stock.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• In the midst of culture wars and border debates, two Dreamers work to find their place in a city that is growing more volatile.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2023
• In the past three months, year-over-year inflation that excludes volatile food and energy costs has dropped to 1.5%.
  — Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 30 Jan. 2024
• According to the study, short-term rentals, like those on Airbnb and Vrbo, are seeing far less volatile pricing over the tour dates.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2024
• Inside the labyrinth of the upper floors, men sniffed a highly volatile liquid called butyl nitrite—poppers, as the type of drug is still known.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• One good example of short-run differences is the volatile times of the pandemic era.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• In declaring war on the upper class that made him, Carlson joined a long, volatile lineage of combatants against the élite.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Despite the drop, the global energy market can be volatile and lower gas prices down the road aren’t promised.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
• With volatile energy and food costs are stripped out, core CPI is seen rising 5 percent from a year ago.
  — Sarah Zheng, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Markets in the third quarter were volatile, leading to mixed results for trading desks at big banks.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Oil prices had already been volatile leading into the weekend.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• This remains one of the most important, and dangerous, fault lines in this volatile region.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• But scientists say what sped the fires’ spread was a volatile combination of drought, climate change and El Niño.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• Excluding volatile energy and food costs, core prices rose 0.4% from March to April, the same as from February to March.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Other times, Isaacson shows Jobs as volatile and cruel.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2024
• Budding investors shouldn't be afraid to open a portfolio just because the market might be volatile.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 24 Apr. 2023
• The egg business is volatile, with avian flu affecting flocks some years and with the price of corn (chicken feed) fluctuating.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• But tourism is volatile and could soften if the economy slows or slips into a recession this year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
• In other words, these seven rosters sit on a tenuous lead atop a volatile pack of challengers.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
• On the other side of the belt, at Orion’s shoulder, is Betelgeuse, a volatile star that appears red, and Bellatrix forms the other shoulder.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024

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volatile

2 of 2 noun

• Though the team could not say which volatiles were present, there was reason to hope that water might be one of them.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• The current best suggestion is the boiling off of volatiles.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2018
• The moon then coalesced from the disk—a scenario that can explain the moon’s large mass and dearth of water and other volatiles.
  — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• The brilliant corona and tail that give comets their appeal are a result of water and other volatiles streaming off the surface in the presence of sunlight.
  — TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Tholins are a sort of aerosol thrown out when volatiles escape an atmosphere, but Pluto appears to not lose many of its volatile particles to space.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2015
• Beyond the snowline, these volatiles condensed into giant gas-balls.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Caesar would scoop up at least 100 grams from the comet, separating the volatiles — constituents that could evaporate — from the more solid substances.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• The evidence that plants can somehow perceive these volatiles and respond with a defense response is also very good.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
• If a tomato had average to high sugar levels but no volatiles, volunteers did not perceive it as sweet.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 1 June 2015
• Understanding the Moon’s volatiles or resources, including minerals, metals, and of course water, is one of the most important parts of the project.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Theory predicts that such impacts would have generated immense amounts of heat, which in turn would have driven volatiles out of the rocks that evenutally formed the moon.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Feb. 2017
• These seem to be their own class of explosive carbonatities where the extreme volatile (CO2) content of the magma drives their violent eruption.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2014
• With tens of millions of viewers each week watching games on networks that have long-term, multibillion dollar rights deals with the N.F.L., sponsors are hesitant to cut ties over a single issue, even one this volatile.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• My developed method utilizes fungus and volatiles to deter the growth of purple nutsedge without risk to non-target plants and to the benefit of the agricultural community.
  — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 9 Mar. 2018
• To explain this depletion, scientists suggest the massive amount of energy and heat generated from the giant impact may have driven volatiles from the fragments of the proto-moon.
  — Erica Jawin, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• Trees emit natural volatiles like isoprene and monoterpenes, which can spark cloud-forming chemical reactions.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• It will be equipped with three spectrometers to measure volatiles – substances such as water that can easily change from solid or liquid to gas – and a 1-meter drill to perform sub-surface excavations.
  — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 25 May 2023
• But the tomato's flavor is especially layered, involving chemicals like acids and sugars (which switch on taste receptors) as well as compounds known as volatiles (which get our smell receptors in gear).
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• Plants interact with organisms that produce sounds all the time — like buzzing bees — and also communicate with other life-forms, including other plants, by emitting chemicals, called volatiles.
  — Darren Incorvaia, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The spacecraft also discovered volatiles like chlorine, sulfur, sodium and potassium on the planet, according to The Times, signifying that Mercury has a complex origin story.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019
• Studies also show that moon rocks are stripped of nearly all volatiles (materials that boil away easily), providing evidence of some long-ago disaster that eliminated them.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• Understanding lunar volatiles could improve the productivity and value of future human involvement with the moon, scientists have stressed.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2018
• For example, virgin boring beetles, Hylotrupes bajulus, use fecal volatiles to meet their partners, increasing the opportunity to mate.
  — Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• The organic molecules and volatiles, comparable to samples of sedimentary rock rich in organics on Earth, included thiopene, methylthiophenes methanethiol and dimethylsulfide.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 June 2018
• Dryness: The lunar samples proved to be extremely dry and almost entirely depleted of volatiles—elements or molecules with low boiling points that easily evaporate, such as water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen.
  — Erica Jawin, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• The organic molecules and volatiles, comparable to samples of sedimentary rock rich in organics on Earth, included thiophenes, methylthiophenes methanethiol and dimethylsulfide.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
• Though the team could not say which volatiles were present, there was reason to hope that water might be one of them.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• The current best suggestion is the boiling off of volatiles.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2018
• The moon then coalesced from the disk—a scenario that can explain the moon’s large mass and dearth of water and other volatiles.
  — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• The brilliant corona and tail that give comets their appeal are a result of water and other volatiles streaming off the surface in the presence of sunlight.
  — TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017

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