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Sentence Examples Things actually become worse when Emily befriends an imaginary friend whose erratic behavior eventually turns murderous. An erratic thudding that I soon recognized as my own heartbeat echoed in my ears at the sight. While the cause of the erratic weather is a subject of debate, a couple of its effects are clear. He was a consummate stylist, but personal partialities made him an erratic judge of others. Surely everyone must have been able to hear the erratic pounding of her coward heart. The records may forcibly bring to the attention of the staff and the patient the fact that patient behavior is lawful, and not erratic. His early timekeepers were controlled by pendulums but, in anything but a flat calm, their going was most erratic. The display boards about bus timings are confusing, some say, because schedules are often erratic. Soon though, my growing depression and erratic behaviour put a terrible strain on our love. Mary's frustration turned into rage, and her behavior became increasingly erratic. I gave up after much erratic behaviour on her part and distanced myself from fear. When staff became concerned by his erratic behaviour and obscene language they called police. The shadower fired its maneuvering thrusters at full power as it tried to effect an erratic evasive pattern. Her mood swings had become erratic, her power uncontrollable and her temper volatile. As well as being a cricket tragic, I am a keen, enthusiastic but erratic golfer. So to the extent that you can personify methodology I see him as ingenious but erratic. So even when his talent was at last appreciated, he seemed certain to remain an erratic, blowing hot and cold. It's more of an erratic growl which shrieks blue murder up towards 6000 revs and beyond. Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze. Later, back in the motorhome, my erratic driving and occasional tussle with second gear seemed positively trivial. Show More Sentences The high sludge yields were caused by unexpectedly high and erratic levels of influent solids for which the builders were not responsible. Not that they aren't used to the travails of erratic power supply and the lines going phut whenever it starts raining. That edginess was not helped by the sort of erratic refereeing which caused perplexed reactions in both technical areas. The sequence may be random, erratic or a continuous pattern but like a perennial river, the thought flow goes on. In practice the attention paid by national parliaments to EU market legislation is erratic and sporadic. This is the Cinderella of the arts, dependent on celebrities and multinationals for its erratic funding. The light from candlelit chandeliers cast a soft and erratic glow upon her skin. His heart rate started to become erratic, making his blood pulse through his veins with added force. He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious. It is still a little erratic but there are very few signs that the UK is experiencing a double dip. If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery. Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history. He may have been erratic and error-prone but at least he was prepared to hurl ideas around. I tucked into the kerbside as far as practical, while the driver thankfully managed to adjust the erratic steering. Only her slightly erratic movements and an obvious weariness remind you that for the past 25 years she has suffered from Parkinson's disease. The spread of industry, or machinery, or steam power, or the factory system itself was erratic. Given the erratic 2001 weather, it's a wonder that any decent burgundies were made at all. It is evident from different reports that many of the meters are giving erratic readings. Other grandparents fear the regular and erratic comings and goings and demands of the unfit parents of their grandchildren. About 50 minutes later, just as people outside realized there was a problem, the elevator stopped its erratic movements. Show More Sentences My sleep patterns have been so erratic this week that I've felt physically sick at times. Rapid eye movement sleep is characterized by a highly erratic breathing pattern and could not be simulated with current technology. As the herd gained momentum the bells on the lead cows rang out louder and the erratic clanging became a regular tolling. The vehicle he was driving was stopped because of an erratic driving pattern typical of someone under the influence. But in addition to being erratic, Lewis has a particularly reactionary political agenda. I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements. He still has this erratic speech pattern, the fluttering of the eyes, and he's the most appalling speechmaker. Just take for instance, the erratic rain pattern that hit parts of the country in the last farming season. A defibrillator emits a series of electric shocks, these make sure the heart does not have erratic rhythms. Of course, if that kind of erratic weather pattern appeared during winter, then I guessed that a blizzard would appear. Global warming is also implicated in increasingly erratic arctic weather patterns. Now scientists say the warming trend, if it continues, will increase the erratic weather patterns. The Alice Springs district is dry for much of the year, and has an erratic rainfall pattern, with a slight summer maximum. Room's movements were becoming more erratic and convulsive, and he seemed to have entered a trance-like state. One boy of 22 months developed severe kwashiorkor on a diet of rice milk and erratic solids. Moths typically go into erratic dives when they sense that they have been detected by nearby bats using echolocation. With reading they may be hesitant and often misread words and with writing they may have erratic spelling and tendency to reverse letters. Her excitement caused him to diagnose an erratic heartbeat, which restricted freedom of movement and made her feel like an invalid. In May and June rainfall may be erratic, resulting in a high risk for growth failure of early seeds. Last year, he had little trouble gloving grounders, but his throws were erratic. Show More Sentences He's erratic and foul-prone, but he shows too much promise and low-post scoring potential to be ignored. Steady breezes create regular rollers, while erratic squalls thrust up chaotic surges. No longer can she rewrite history to suit her politician's vanity or her increasingly erratic moods. The rest of the rhymes are embedded in the middle of lines whose meter becomes erratic. The only negative is the erratic quality of the food, although Sunday brunch is invariably excellent. Abraham, who got lost traveling to the city, was also a bit erratic with his driving on the course. Water utility companies too, are affected because the water levels in the rivers are low due to erratic rains. As the season progressed, all became more neurotic, erratic, and self-absorbed. I lay deadly still and tried to listen for a sound to give me a clue to where I was, but all I could hear was my own erratic breathing. Angus led the old garron to the place called Clachan Knowe where big erratic boulders sprouted from the heather like henge-stones. He named the Channeled Scablands, with its catastrophically water-carved coulees, dry waterfalls, potholes and huge erratic boulders. It appears that he had a lively genius, but was unstable, erratic, and weak. The rainy season was unusually erratic that year in Wind Dance, and Eider had been caught unprepared for a storm of such force. However, he was then frozen out of the US space programme because of his erratic character. There are light crosswinds blowing off Lake Michigan which may account for some of the plane's erratic movements. His erratic play is perfectly suited to match play, especially a four-ball match where he could be paired with a steadier player. Paws thudded on the ground nearby, and a small scrawny wolf darted out of the brush, headed in an erratic fashion to the path. The stylishly erratic gardens are a hedonist's delight, where Ferdinand thoughtfully provided a bosky chalet for his fat German mistress. He has a strong but erratic arm and should find more touch if he develops more consistent mechanics. With the engine throttled right back, I was once again very aware of the very slow and somewhat erratic airborne idling characteristics of the Kestrel. Show More Sentences The animation is beautifully rendered and the storytelling top notch even if the pacing is, at times, erratic. It was published as a quarterly for eight years, after which the issues became very erratic because of a low subscriber base and a lack of a full-time staff. Hot north-east winds gusting up to 75 kph resulted in erratic fire behaviour and two water bombers were bought in to reinforce suppression resources. A wave of hands suddenly rose high in the air as each one moved about in erratic and unpredictable movements, each as unique as the children's personality. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us, but the erratic weather pattern has ensured there is still a lot of corn to cut and straw to gather. In the first innings Lee had been erratic and expensive, like Warne conceding more than 100 runs, but yesterday he sustained a decent pace and allied it to accuracy. John McCain was an erratic RINO who turned a hundred years old on the campaign trail. His erratic behaviour in handling Russian oil pipelines prompted Moscow to seek alternative routes of supply. The responding officers appear to understand the grief behind his erratic action but still want to take a look around the house. Instead, passes fled astray in alarming numbers amid erratic play. In 1939 he underwent surgery for a brain tumour and emerged with one side of his face paralysed, his tongue atrophied and his behaviour even more erratic. On the other hand, if it all goes wrong, he might turn out to be just one more erratic autocrat relying on nationalist rhetoric and the spoils system to stay in power. Sleep deprivation resulting from multiple, erratic awakenings may produce a very different effect compared to controlled and predictable sleep deprivation. He was slithering downward, bored, lonely, erratic, sending out thousands of text messages. A glance at the stack of schoolbooks on her desk reminded Lee that she had a class this morning, and Lee inwardly cursed her erratic course schedule. The match was played in a wonderful spirit, as befits two friends, although the patience of both players was severely tested by some erratic umpiring. In particular, they took a heavy toll on the erratic Hayward, who opened with a 90 mph wide and was soon warned for an unintentional beamer to Harvey. As the money flows like water and the increasingly erratic Mirtha, a coke addict, makes things tough at home, the FBI begins to close in on poor George. In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses. She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills. Show More Sentences His outlook turns bleak and his behavior erratic as he confronts the reality of his health. Latham had a reputation for erratic behaviour, not consulting his erstwhile colleagues and for some of the most unparliamentary language ever entered into Hansard. Sovereign debt, needed by all countries, but particularly by the poorest, suffers profoundly from erratic interest-rate and exchange-rate movements. But changeable wind conditions and a single erratic rain shower soon took its toll, with Carroll demoted down to sixth during a routine pitstop for new tyres. Scotland's lack of a filmmaking infrastructure means erratic grabs for spare cash, no real control over production, and a slippery grip on any home-bred talent. Anyway, their excuse was that my behavior was becoming too erratic, which is a hoot since they know better than anyone that it's all part of the Plan. Both were hasty, erratic, impulsive men and capable of atrocious judgment. Think now of a filmstrip that records an erratic distribution of the balls on a pool table, and then shows the balls contracting into a regular triangle. Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind. Then his arms would start flailing wildly like a birds in erratic flight. Both brothers like their father, musically speaking, are rather erratic instant effect with quack, ornamental flourishes that be tied down to ponderous vistar. A moth slowly fluttered in an erratic circle around her, dancing jovially. I haven't eaten properly for a few days and my sleeping has been erratic. Such erratic behaviour, it would emerge, was typical of Wilson, a man known in the local community as being a quiet, if excitable, young man, of rather low intelligence. Faldo had a very erratic relationship with the media prior to and during the competition. Not only is the rising sea a problem, but erratic weather patterns may cause the rivers to overflow. His readings there brought him a degree of fame, while his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened. Generally the weather pattern is quite unsettled and erratic during these months, with only occasional heatwaves. Another mutual friend, the erratic and unwashed crackhead Ryan, is a problem for everyone. This highly erratic and undependable second-rut phenomenon is possible all the way through our late December muzzle-loader season. Show More Sentences An increasingly erratic Bruce takes potshots at Tony, Dom tries it on with Belle and Lisa's meddling causes nothing but trouble. Q Our cast iron spectrographic analysis has begun yielding erratic results. Protect your laptop against erratic electrical current and telephone line surges and spikes anywhere in the world. The Bruins denied the Canucks a Cup-clinching victory, chasing Vancouver's erratic goalie Roberto Luongo in the first period. When I was wee, I was shoved in at the deep end and I've been doing an erratic version of the doggy paddle ever since. Freight volumes have been erratic, with a major decrease during 1997 due to a closure caused by a fire in a freight shuttle. He was behaving in an erratic and aggressive manner, went down Nant Garmon still waving the bat around. Decreasing the inoculum concentration in liquid-media-grown cultures led to less recoverability in general, and more erratic results. There are various scenarios that can corrupt your JPEG files like virus infection, or during erratic file transfer etc. They may be wary of job-hoppers, so if you're worried about your erratic employment history, try to give it a positive spin. Though often dismissed as an erratic flibbertigibbet, Jean Cocteau was one of the twentieth century's great agents provocateurs. As for sundries, these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch. They were directed at the target and fired by lighting the fuse, but the trajectory was rather erratic. Bubble Rock, a glacial erratic, is a large boulder perched on the edge of Bubble Mountain in Acadia National Park. Republicans will have their work cut out for them trying to shift blame to Democrats for their own erratic, haphazard and incoherent process. Bennett is officially on the DL with plantar fascitis, but his real problem has been erratic throws. The Treasury was entrusted to the pococurante capacity of Grafton, the Exchequer to the erratic genius of Charles Townshend. Rainfall is very unreliable and erratic in the Sahara as it may vary considerably year by year. In many developing countries where economies are growing, the growth is often erratic and based on a small number of industries. Last year, he was down at heel, homeless and had an erratic relationship with his family. Show More Sentences The airflow can remain turbulent and erratic for some distance downwind into the flatter countryside. The period witnessed a relative stabilization of the Earth's general climate, ending the previous pattern of erratic climatic fluctuations. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc. Surfers Paradise is just over the border in Queensland, and I was eager to dip a toe into that interesting and erratic state. Meanwhile, European scholars had begun to wonder what had caused the dispersal of erratic material. Some ducks, particularly in Australia where rainfall is patchy and erratic, are nomadic, seeking out the temporary lakes and pools that form after localised heavy rain. The second helicopter abandoned the flight and returned to the Nimitz with reported erratic instrumentation blamed on the highly elevated temperatures inside the haboob. He reported that the inhabitants of that valley attributed the dispersal of erratic boulders to the glaciers, saying that they had once extended much farther. Another major, though erratic, export item was indigo dye, which was extracted from natural indigo, and which came to be grown in Bengal and northern Bihar. The teaching was erratic, the curriculum mostly focused, Wells later said, on producing copperplate handwriting and doing the sort of sums useful to tradesmen. Then the visits of the dhobi, as he is known back home, became erratic. The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks. Within human geography there is a significant but erratic history of objectivist analyses, including work in cultural geography and behavioral geography. The pitch promised some early movement to the seamers, but Zimbabwe's erratic bowling attack were able to bowl few deliveries to trouble the batsmen. Erratic though its incidence is, the liability is a tax upon the ownership of land. Erratic players are punished for their disasters in addition to being rewarded for their fluky strokes of fortune. Erratic boulders of glauconitic limestone in northern Germany. Erratic high-grade results were reported from initial work, and later followed up by several other explorers. Examples from Classical Literature Susan, holding on against the erratic swayings of the cart, pretended not to hear. A williwaw began in the hills ahead and swept out and set the ship to reeling crazily in its erratic currents. He is as erratic in his flight as a clay pigeon, though it is tolerably safe to assume that he will not jump backward. On the banks of this erratic stream lived an Abenaki tribe called the Sokokis. The unnerving tension of expecting it every second made them erratic and nervous to the nth degree. Fairly long off the tee, but erratic with the brassie, and not all dependable195 when it came to short iron work. He worked in his erratic way all winter, and certainly did have some success. A Camberwell beauty darted through the open door and made its way, in erratic plunges, great wings waving, down the sunny aisle. It was all of the Second Empire, qualified by an erratic, exaggerated touch that was natively American. But it was found that viability was so erratic that coefficients might mislead. She had believed in a spiritual light burning steadily and steadfastly behind the erratic disorder and incoherence of life. The clerid's resemblance to pseudomyrmecines was enhanced by an erratic antlike movement. He is rather excitable and erratic, but he cuts quite a swath here. I was distressed with a sense of ephemerality, of pale, erratic fragility. Calhoun swung it on an erratic course, lest there be opposition. These elevated summits consist of rounded cones, between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. After a fortnight or so, Dr. Griswold began to be very erratic. Just then he heard of an erratic genius who had an invention for winding paper tape on wire for the use of milliners. Hinsdale was a good backstop, but his throwing to second was erratic. At the best, in her most charitable frame of mind, she considered the statement of his views to be a caprice, an erratic and uncalled-for prank. Show More Sentences His expressive features kindled up, as he recognized the spot where this trifling incident of his erratic life had chanced. Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner. In both places I had friends who treated my erratic appearances with discretion, in one case tinged with respect, in the other with a certain amused tolerance. Your normally well-behaved dog can become erratic and seem to lose his or her mind when visitors come to your house, and cats often hide from company. However, he's just as well known today for his short temper and erratic behaviour as he is for the music he made with the likes of Cream, Blind Faith and Public Image Ltd. Her erratic swaying impossibly quickened through editing, the dancing figure shimmers like a ghost in the darkened space, washed out to a bleary black-and-white. Find more words! 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