How to Use unreliable in a Sentence

unreliable

adjective

• And then he, too, is gone, as shifty and unreliable as his words.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
• Even the words that did present themselves could seem odd and unreliable.
  — Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• The problem, the researchers said, is that many of those projects are unreliable and overpromise.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
• The staff warned me not to expect it again; supply was very unreliable.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
• Both movies open on a death — one real, the other a hoax — and seek to take us back through time with the aid of an unreliable narrator.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• Much of what the two men say about what’s happening in the rest of their lives is unreliable, based in fantasy or in lies.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
• If the eye is an unreliable narrator, what are we left with?
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
• One of the most common is that the output of these systems is simply unreliable.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the company does not use fact-checks to keep ads off of pages with unreliable or harmful claims.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2022
• But the game’s use of these gestures felt awkward and unreliable, and the experience was short and on-rails.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• China has seized on the turmoil to taunt the U.S. and label it an unreliable partner.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2021
• Rising sophomores Frankie Collins and Kobe Bufkin played bit roles for most of the season and proved unreliable beyond the 3-point line.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
• In any case, the Giants are simply unreliable right now.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• Atlanta is one of the bellwethers of the league, so using them as a measuring stick for all 30 clubs in MLB is unreliable.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• They are left with one slow and unreliable train a day between Springfield and Boston.
  — Tom Condon, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• Once known as one of the best defenders in the sport, Rizzo’s defense became unreliable towards the end of the season.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
• China has seized on the turmoil to taunt the United States and label it an unreliable partner.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• The reports have come from only a small number of users, most of them talking about it on Reddit, which can be an unreliable source.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
• The notion that there is some sort of immutable gold standard for truthful acting is deeply unreliable: cometh the hour, cometh the actor.
  — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• Then the Rangers’ bullpen (which at first had pitched well in relief of starter Nathan Eovaldi) reverted back to its unreliable self.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• So far this week, the Diamondbacks have not pitched well and their defense has been unreliable at best and sloppy at worst.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
• Jake Nolan was a very unreliable narrator of this event.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Equally disturbing, the snow might cause the roads to become slick and unreliable for traction.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Regardless, the ground game has been unreliable, to put it nicely.
  — Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• The bloodline can be an unreliable thing, and cruel sometimes.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• As unreliable as he was unwieldy (at 25 feet long), Bruce was allergic to salt, named after a lawyer, and unable to float on his own.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• The latest public opinion polls in Chile — which have been unreliable in recent elections — suggest Kast shot to the lead in the final stretch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2021
• In the end the many unreliable accounts don’t detract from the forcefulness of the author’s portrayal.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2022
• The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
  — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
• Democrats have long struggled to harness the enthusiasm of younger audiences, who often lean left but view the party as an unreliable ally on progressive demands.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025