not dependable

Example Sentences

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Robots depend on powerful motors to provide balance, but they’re not dependable except in carefully curated environments such as laboratories.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

These early bikes were not dependable, says Tom Samuelsen, historian of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Motorcycling.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Nor was she especially good, in the sense of having a dependable inclination to virtue; she was quixotically loving, not steadily charitable: mutable, not dependable: given to infatuation, prey to impulse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

The maternal protective behavior is not dependable; if she’s disturbed or the sac is not viable the mother spider may extract the young and eat them.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2012

Not infrequently individuals of the Toulouse breed will do this also but as a rule they are not dependable for this purpose.

From Ducks and Geese by Lamon, Harry M.