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
  • There are, inevitably and perhaps predictably, dire consequences here, as signaled when I-Ann has to run to the street to puke during her shift.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
  • People want assurances that cars with no one behind the wheel will behave predictably and safely.
    Joann Muller, Axios, 21 May 2025

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