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How to use volatility in a sentence

Owing to its extreme volatility it can only be taken dissolved in spirit.

Her natural volatility and satirical humour are now transformed to chastened vivacity and the sportive sallies of innocent wit.

There was more stuff in Barbara, with all her seeming volatility, than in a wilderness of lady Anns.

THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALD

De Garros, with the volatility of a true Frenchman, waved his hand to show that he was not injured.

I have been many a time surprised to observe the strange volatility of sailormen.

HUMPHREY BOLDHERBERT STRANG

It is a mixture of three fluids (consisting of carburetted hydrogen), of different degrees of volatility.

The same thing happens more readily over antimony, from the volatility of this metal.

A minute loss of salt may be counted on, from its known volatility with boiling water.

That presupposes a volatility of emotion that people of any strength of character arc not likely to indulge in.

His extraordinary volatility proceeds from a mind packed full of curiosity and speculation.

SHANDYGAFFCHRISTOPHER MORLEY

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985