Example Sentences

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“Then watch bewildered as the waves of our inconstancy lap them away, along with the footprints of the builder.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

They are the Americans who work in our military, a call to service that doesn’t indulge inconstancy or caprice.

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Yet the movie’s biggest drawback is its tonal inconstancy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2018

Fiasco also coaxed an effervescent, youthful sweetness from the sour inconstancy of the lovers in “The Two Gentleman of Verona,” an early comedy.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee