Examples of reliable in a Sentence

Adjective He's not very reliable. You can't always count on him to do what he says he'll do. We can't write a report without reliable data. We need more reliable information before we can take action.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Officials said the new plant would be more reliable, easier to operate, and improve the quality and appearance of the town’s water, which is currently often brown because of iron and manganese that a new treatment facility could remove. — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022 Certainly having a legal promise not to affect the district means that that portion of the district is reliable, because the law can’t be changed. — The New Republic, 18 May 2022 On Wednesday, state media claimed a million people had already recovered from fever, though experts doubt the numbers being reported by North Korea are reliable. — New York Times, 18 May 2022 Certain information has been provided by and/or is based on third party sources and, although believed to be reliable, has not been independently verified and Boyar Asset Management or any of its affiliates is not responsible for third-party errors. — Jonathan Boyar, Forbes, 6 May 2022 And because of that mistake, the results for those problems turned out not to be reliable. — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022 Case counts are no longer reliable because official testing and reporting has been scaled back and more Americans are testing at home. — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022 More equitable ways of paying for care require careful investigation and testing to ensure that equity measures are reliable and actually measure what they are supposed to measure. — Amol Navathe, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022 Thanks to the brushless motor, the robot vacuum is more reliable, has a longer lifespan, makes less noise, and is more energy-efficient. — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun This old reliable is oil-free, fragrance-free, paraben-free, and allergy-tested. — ELLE, 15 Mar. 2022 So the Ravens opted to take him out of the spotlight and turn to old reliable: Bynes. — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 21 Oct. 2021 Some are venerable right-wing reliables like National Review, The Washington Times, or Newsmax. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2019 Atleti's biggest transformation comes at the heart of their defence, as old reliables Filipe Luis, Juanfran and captain Diego Godin were released when their contracts expired. — SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019 The general public now, however, would see Mr. Trump’s generals as the reliables, the dependables, the sophisticates of the administration. — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017 North Korea's weekend launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile further demonstrated that the country is consistently trying to come up with new, better ways to keep its nuclear deterrent reliable and safe from attack. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2017 Also submitted for our hilarity are such reliables as the pot-smoking old lady and the elaborate cake that will never reach the finale intact. — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017 See More

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