Example Sentences

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"I'm a new artist and cancelling shows just makes you seem undependable," he says, catching up over Zoom in September.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2022

He once called himself “unemployable, undependable and not too smart.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2022

That is the situation with dog breeds right now, and the problem of mismatching a breed with a climate will only worsen as climates themselves become undependable.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2021

Nope, he picks the same scrappy bunch of folks we’ve seen in previous episodes, most of whom are way down on the superpower scale and some of whom are, shall we say, undependable.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Otherwise I might be considered undependable, or unworthy.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison