Hard to forecast

Usage examples of unpredictable.

For the thousandth time, he wished Bowser were still here, wily and unpredictable and fiercely unwilling to surrender.

But Brushy Jim was unpredictable, and he had a hair-trigger temper, so she decided that a shrug was the safest response.

A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.

The danger is that it invokes only spirits of time, and such monoclinal adjurations risk perturbing the diametric complement, which in the case of time is chance, thus hazarding aberrant and unpredictable eventualities.

I remembered the stories my Aunt Justine had told me, that Soli was a man famous for his terrible, unpredictable rages.

Terrorists are stateless and constantly on the move, their organizational structures are always in flux, and the only thing that is predictable is that they will be unpredictable.

I was in no doubt that this had something to do with the mirage of Dr Carter and his presence in my life, even if that presence was in fact more of an absence, for Dr Carter remained unbiddable, unpredictable.

The Warps were a legacy of Chaos, a last remaining manifestation of the pandemonium that had once ruled unchecked in the world before the rise of Order, and when they came, terrifying and unpredictable, every man, woman and child took shelter.

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder.

In the Emergency Room of Jacobi Hospital Carlson came to the conclusion that the trouble with Serving A Cause was that it involved associating with unperceptive and dangerously unpredictable people.

The beams had to fumble blindly for the fugitives, and they told of each touch, but only after it occurred, And Kim struggled to make his course unpredictable.

There had been no Deathbird re-con flyovers, but he attributed that to the unpredictable down and updrafts swirling among the peaks of the Bitterroot Range.

The Amir of Bokhara is dangerous and unpredictable and he dislikes Europeans.

Now, the Nirauan cliffs took the challenge a step farther by adding unpredictable curves and breakpoints, with varying widths and depths, jutting rocks, and clinging tree vines.

But he saw Barcelona to the west and, farther south, Cartagena, were also possible destinations for Spanish warships whose captains would be anxious to keep to the northward because of the shoals and unpredictable currents along the low-lying African coast.