How to Use fickle in a Sentence

fickle

adjective

• He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
• But the thing about track and field is it’s a very fickle sport.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2022
• The fate of Jews lies in the fickle hands of government.
  — David Wolpe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The hot acts change quickly and the fanbase is young and fickle.
  — August Brown, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2019
• And this brings us back to the fickle nature of football fans.
  — SI.com, 8 July 2018
• The world is very fickle, but this one just is a total hit.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2022
• Whom to sell to once fickle fashionistas have moved on to the next trend?
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
• No surprise fickle fans are putting all the blame on Wentz.
  — Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• But baseball can be a fickle game, and the fates can spin faster than the best curveball.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2021
• The process of getting to the game has proved to him these moments are fleeting and fickle.
  — Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• The mind of the pop culture collective is fickle like that.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Fashion is fickle, but the ugly-chic shoe has been all the rage for years now.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 June 2022
• Then again, the future can be fickle in the minor leagues with roster turnover the norm.
  — Steve T. Gorches, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 May 2018
• Surf conditions can be fickle, day by day and hour by hour, at the best breaks on the globe.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• Ah, looks like the flying fickle finger of fate came back to haunt her.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2017
• Crypto has proven to be a fickle suitor for chip makers in the past.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Fame is fleeting and fickle, and all of us have seen people get burned by it.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
• The music business can be fickle and unfair, but so is the world.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
• But both sources of energy are fickle: winds abate; clouds block the sun.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• Then, the fickle weather gods must smile on the enterprise.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• The cycling world can be a fickle one, so use that to your advantage.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
• Ad placements are fickle things and can be added or pulled at almost any time.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The world can be very fickle and not welcoming and unkind.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2020
• The memories of football fans can be very fickle things.
  — SI.com, 8 July 2018
• Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Skylar, who is wise beyond her years about the short shelf life of pop music and the fickle nature of young fans, isn’t so sure.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2022
• Social network users are fickle, and the novelty of a new place to post can wear off in a hurry.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• EVs can sometimes be fickle to top off; the Lightning was set to charge all the way but instead stopped at 94 percent.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
• But the media machine moves in fickle fashion from one feeding frenzy to the next.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• Momentum is fickle in politics, but Biden and the Democrats haven’t held it for months.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024