PREDICTABILITY in a Sentence

Learn PREDICTABILITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

101 example sentences for PREDICTABILITY, such as:

1. You can never predict what would happen next.
2. Birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict.
3. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
4. She entered, transformed as her guardian had predicted.
5. Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREDICTABILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
predictability
 n.  likelihood; quality of being predictable
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Now, he was going to try to take liberties, just as Ellen predicted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  At the end of July came the unwelcome news, predicted by Uncle Henry, that the Yankees had swung around again toward Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  As grandfather had predicted, Mrs. Shimerda never saw the roads going over his head.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
4  Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
5  It was doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Noirtier was a true prophet, and things progressed rapidly, as he had predicted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
7  This order was also executed; and the vessel passed, as Dantes had predicted, twenty fathoms to windward.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
8  Danglars made no reply; he was occupied in anticipations of the coming scene between himself and the baroness, whose frowning brow, like that of Olympic Jove, predicted a storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
9  This was Julie, who had become, as the clerk of the house of Thomson & French had predicted, Madame Emmanuel Herbault.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
10  She entered, transformed as her guardian had predicted.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
12  His god-father had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
13  Then also, as Athos had predicted, it became possible to find Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
14  Agnes was very cheerful; and laughingly predicted that I should soon become too famous to be talked to, on such subjects.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
15  Besides, there was gratitude towards her, for having made their tete-a-tete so much less painful than her fears had predicted.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  A group of scientists predicted that the saltiness of the waters of the oceans around South Africa could serve as an early indicator of climate change.
17  Many have predicted that it is a day of doom. However, it is just a precession of the equinoxes.
18  We are now more able to predict future patterns of climate change.
19  It will be many years before anyone can predict a hurricane's behavior with much accuracy.
20  The best way to predict your future is to create it.
21  Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
22  It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
23  Birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict.
24  It is not possible to predict with any certainty what effect this will have.
25  Evolution can explain the past, but it can never predict the future.
26  It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome of global warming will be.
27  You can never predict what would happen next.
28  A computer model is used to predict forces affecting the aircraft in flight.
29  Economists predict that house prices will remain static for a long period.
30  It's still not possible to accurately predict the occurrence of earthquakes.