How to Use inconstant in a Sentence

inconstant

adjective
  • Song as a different kind of time, as heroin became her own inconstant clock.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Migraine auras and pounding headaches are inconstant partners.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
  • But more interesting than Medvedev’s inconstant persona were the shades and shadows of his game.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Books about global warming often seem wary of beauty, evoking it only as fleeting and inconstant.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Despite their impact, these inventions trickled across Eurasia, because trade was slow and inconstant.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2011
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis, on the other hand, is an inconstant thing.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • But the about-face on Syria was about more than the indiscipline of a reliably inconstant presidency.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The self is a shifting, inconstant phenomenon, brain and body ever transforming in time and space, with no clear delineation between what is self and what is other.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Turgenev was also indecisive, inconstant, maybe even a bit unreliable.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And the prospect of hacking by foreign adversaries—or by any malign actor—will always be present in a system as decentralized and inconstant as the one that grew out of that single line in the Constitution.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 7 July 2020
  • Oedipus and the Riddle Quadruped in the dawn, erect at noon, and wandering on three legs across the blind spaces of afternoon; so the eternal Sphinx saw her inconstant brother, Man.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2011
  • Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Some things must abide, beyond the power of equivocators, thugs, and misbegotten presidents, beyond the influence of inconstant political drama.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Energy experts have been warning that electricity is likely to get more expensive and less reliable unless renewable power that waxes and wanes under inconstant sunlight and wind is backed up by generators that can run whenever needed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • The former President’s endorsement last month of Oz—a television celebrity who had not lived in Pennsylvania for decades, and whose commitment to conservative principles was at best inconstant—was seen as an out-of-the-box choice.
    — The New Yorker, 15 May 2022

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