How to Use volatile in a Sentence

volatile

1 of 2 adjective

• The stock market can be very volatile.
• She is a volatile woman.
• The protests are increasing, creating a volatile situation in the capital.
• This makes their scores more volatile.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
• Prices then were both high and volatile.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
• Oil prices have had a volatile few days.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
• The next front may be even more volatile.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
• Oil prices have been volatile since the start of the war.
  — Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• Our state revenue base is too volatile.
  — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
• Asian shares slide in a volatile session.
  — Nasteho Said, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
• Fares and hotel prices will be more volatile.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
• Why is silver more volatile than gold?
  — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 16 June 2026
• It's been a more volatile session for crude.
  — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 26 May 2026
• Since then, the stock has been highly volatile.
  — Nick Wells,sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
• The two met just once, and the meeting was a volatile one.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
• It’s been a volatile week for both stock and bond markets so far.
  — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 13 May 2026
• Oil prices were volatile in Thursday trade.
  — Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
• It's been a strange and volatile year on Wall Street.
  — Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 31 Dec. 2025
• The oil market has been volatile amid the war with Iran.
  — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 13 May 2026
• Too many young players in the same place tends to be a recipe for volatile form.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• The pair’s volatile chemistry helps to smooth over some of the script’s weak spots.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
• While crop prices tend to be volatile, other foods may not change in the short term.
  — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
• That said, the price of silver has been volatile lately.
  — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
• Silver, on the other hand, tends to be more volatile.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• The past three weeks in the stock market have been highly volatile.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 17 June 2026
• To this end, currencies will be very volatile.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Another volatile week may be in store.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
• And the war in Iran has made big costs like fuel even more volatile.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
• The portal has made college hoops volatile.
  — Greg Cote april 6, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
• Still, shares have been volatile in after-hours trading.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025

volatile

2 of 2 noun

• Though the team could not say which volatiles were present, there was reason to hope that water might be one of them.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• These volatiles are distributed all across the surface of the planet.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• The Broncos have gone from reliable to volatile.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2025
• Beyond the snowline, these volatiles condensed into giant gas-balls.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Any assumptions about the object's lack of volatiles is also premature at this time.
  — Harry Baker, Space.com, 29 July 2025
• The moon then coalesced from the disk—a scenario that can explain the moon’s large mass and dearth of water and other volatiles.
  — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• For example, heat stress, extreme weather, and droughts cause plants to release more biogenic volatiles—which seed more clouds.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• If a tomato had average to high sugar levels but no volatiles, volunteers did not perceive it as sweet.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 1 June 2015
• The evidence that plants can somehow perceive these volatiles and respond with a defense response is also very good.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
• Tomato plants produce nutrient-rich foliage and strong plant volatiles that attract sap-sucking insects.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
• Tholins are a sort of aerosol thrown out when volatiles escape an atmosphere, but Pluto appears to not lose many of its volatile particles to space.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2015
• The brilliant corona and tail that give comets their appeal are a result of water and other volatiles streaming off the surface in the presence of sunlight.
  — TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Trees emit natural volatiles like isoprene and monoterpenes, which can spark cloud-forming chemical reactions.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• That makes these icy bodies in Fomalhaut similar to the frigid comets of the solar system, which are also packed with volatiles.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2025
• The rover will search for volatiles such as water ice, a resource seen as vital for sustaining astronauts and producing rocket fuel.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
• Aphids, whiteflies and hornworms are among the most common invaders, drawn in by nutrient-rich foliage and strong plant volatiles that attract sap-sucking insects.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
• The object appears to be filled with volatiles like carbon, sulphur, nitrogen and oxygen, which indicate the presence of water.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• The gas samples were analyzed for sulfur-containing volatiles via gas chromatography.
  — Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• Theory predicts that such impacts would have generated immense amounts of heat, which in turn would have driven volatiles out of the rocks that evenutally formed the moon.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Feb. 2017
• But understanding why pests show up — the sap content, the plant volatiles, the humid microclimates — gives you a real advantage.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
• The mission's rover will look inside the icy crater for water ice and other volatiles – chemical elements that can vaporize into a gas – at the lunar south pole.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
• Some of these volatiles are brought to the moon from the sun via the solar wind, but the abundances of these volatiles, particularly nitrogen, cannot solely be explained by the solar wind.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Dec. 2025
• Secondly, there is a lack of knowledge on how volatiles distribute vertically, including water ice.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• Caesar would scoop up at least 100 grams from the comet, separating the volatiles — constituents that could evaporate — from the more solid substances.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• Objects that formed between the soot and frost lines will be less dense, will have the capacity to possess some volatiles, and can have a wide variety of masses, but should always have rock-and-metal cores.
  — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
• Understanding the Moon’s volatiles or resources, including minerals, metals, and of course water, is one of the most important parts of the project.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Tomato plants have nutrient-rich foliage and produce strong plant volatiles — essentially chemical compounds the plant releases into the air.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
• My developed method utilizes fungus and volatiles to deter the growth of purple nutsedge without risk to non-target plants and to the benefit of the agricultural community.
  — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 9 Mar. 2018
• So there’s the idea that the volatiles, including water, outgassed from the early Earth, which was made out of all these sort of chunks of stuff that came together to form Earth and the other planets.
  — quantamagazine.org, 26 Sep. 2024
• Then, a mass spectrometer will analyze that soil for trace elements and compounds, with a focus on finding water and other volatiles that could support long-term lunar exploration.
  — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025