How to Use erratic in a Sentence

erratic

adjective

• There are more erratic charts, maybe.
  — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• Neighbors said an erratic man woke them up as he was seen jumping on cars.
  — Joe Holden, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
• By evening, her blood pressure and heart rate had become erratic.
  — Amber Gaudet updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
• Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
• Think of the harms of erratic schedules akin to the way dripping water can erode stone.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
• These patterns ranged from steady firing to erratic bursts.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Nov. 2025
• But the woman’s time on the stand was also contentious and erratic at times.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Her own records are often erratic, moving quickly from one idea to the next.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• If its float doesn’t move up and down on its tower or its water flow is erratic, replace it.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• These large waves can be erratic and unpredictable.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
• These large waves can be erratic and unpredictable.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• These large waves can be erratic and unpredictable.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• His videos have grown both defiant and erratic.
  — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
• Gravity, a force that’s too weak to notice at the scale of atoms, grows strong in an erratic way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• That kid somehow got a bead on our erratic shooting schedule and snuck onto set one day.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
• Westbrook can also have an erratic style of play at times, turning the ball over and putting up shots in short bursts.
  — Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• Threats include erratic gusty winds and lightning.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Threats include erratic gusty winds and lightning.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Keeping your baby in the dark may be causing their erratic sleep schedule.
  — Jana Banin, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
• Your thinking might be erratic as well as incorrect.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
• That ended the starter’s latest erratic evening.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 May 2026
• The gusty winds from the storms could create erratic fire behavior for the wildfires.
  — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 12 May 2026
• That's hardly a strong suit of Levis, whose ball placement last season was erratic at best.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• The switchup shows how erratic winter weather in the Southwest can be.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
• The pacing is erratic and the sonorous voice-over narration doesn’t help either.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
• Sasaki’s best inning of an erratic afternoon might have been the fourth.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
• Tel had started the game with a couple of erratic decisions.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• But trains became erratic as maintenance of walls along tracks caused delays.
  — Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
• Two weeks later, the erratic nature of the Wild’s play and the outcomes haven’t changed.
  — Michael Russo, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• Months of dry weather and a record lack of snow this past winter in some places along with erratic winds have been fueling the fires.
  — Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026