How to Use predictably in a Sentence

predictably

adverb

• But the game drives are, predictably, the star of the show.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
• The saw cuts slowly and predictably up to the full bar length.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• The end might have come a dozen times and all too predictably.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Of course, my name came up a lot and, predictably, was dragged through the mud.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Saints predictably shut down the Broncos for a 31-3 win.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2020
• Amid all this, the first steps have been predictably painful.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
• And the stage crew kids are predictably emo in their black clothes and sleepy-eyed stares.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
• Too much age is predictably too much, and weighs down the drink.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2022
• The name of the plan had a predictably gruesome origin.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 May 2022
• The longer the state changes predictably, the more coherent the system is.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
• The race for the team title – and the one spot in the state championships – was predictably tight.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2021
• The movie got trashed by many people, predictably, but some of us loved it.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• The left and the media are predictably heaping blame on Sens.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• That, rather predictably, did not go well for him or the Trail Blazers.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2023
• But with the 8-core, those graphics scores are predictably cut in half.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 4 Sep. 2024
• The predictably ugly stat: 3 of 22 behind the 3-point arc.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• From there things go predictably downhill for the roach.
  — Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• The crowd, many of whom have been imbibing on the grounds since the gates opened at 6 a.m., predictably ate it up.
  — Ben Steele, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2021
• There was, predictably, some snark about the FDA’s move on Twitter.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The air in San Francisco on a cloudy May day is crisp and predictably cool.
  — Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• Shane smelled, and then saw, what happened, and predictably lost his mind.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• Yet, predictably, even then, she is driven to risk it all.
  — Vivian Gornick, The Atlantic, 3 May 2025
• The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
• As of press time, Slack is down, and remote workers around the world are predictably peeved.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2021
• The rapper turned out to the affair predictably stylish in head-to-toe Louis Vuitton menswear.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 6 May 2025
• The Black Keys lead a list that’s predictably stacked with heavyweights and hot newcomers from around the globe.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
• Demand for tickets to the Week 4 game is predictably high.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• Visual artists are spread more evenly, and less predictably, among the states.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• So, maybe predictably, the phone call this week between the two presidents didn’t achieve great strides on reaching a ceasefire deal.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 21 May 2025
• People want assurances that cars with no one behind the wheel will behave predictably and safely.
  — Joann Muller, Axios, 21 May 2025