How to Use fickle in a Sentence

fickle

adjective
  • He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
  • Yes, fortune is fickle and the years are long.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Whether a play endures or fades is fickle.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 June 2026
  • The problem is that his spleen is very fickle.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • George knows how fickle soccer can be.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • Researchers agree hemp is a fickle plant.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • A lot of us are fickle friends to our optimism.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And this brings us back to the fickle nature of football fans.
    — SI.com, 8 July 2018
  • The hot acts change quickly and the fanbase is young and fickle.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • The hot acts change quickly and the fanbase is young and fickle.
    — August Brown, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2019
  • But there is plenty of time for fickle voters to change their minds.
    — Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Whom to sell to once fickle fashionistas have moved on to the next trend?
    — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Ah, looks like the flying fickle finger of fate came back to haunt her.
    — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2017
  • Takeaways can be fickle, though.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Ad placements are fickle things and can be added or pulled at almost any time.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The fickle nature of buyers now makes the whole move feel very late, too.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 May 2026
  • Fashion is fickle, but the ugly-chic shoe has been all the rage for years now.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 June 2022
  • Food is a famously fickle thing in space.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But baseball can be a fickle game, and the fates can spin faster than the best curveball.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But both parties think the youth vote is best described as fickle at this point in the race.
    — Hans Nichols, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Like football itself, fans are a fickle lot.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Two decades later, that fickle through line carries on.
    — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • If your taste in fragrance is as fickle as spring weather, try a set with a mix of scents.
    — Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Surf conditions can be fickle, day by day and hour by hour, at the best breaks on the globe.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Crypto has proven to be a fickle suitor for chip makers in the past.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The cycling world can be a fickle one, so use that to your advantage.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
  • The music business can be fickle and unfair, but so is the world.
    — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The fickle nature of the process has been a common complaint over the years.
    — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024
  • All in all, Southern small talk rules are a fickle thing to follow.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For buyers brave enough to dip their toes in the water, the market has been fickle.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024

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