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

One poem, for example, addresses love’s inconstancy: A woman once gave her lover bitter fruit and he called it sweet; now she gives him sweet water and he calls it brackish.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

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

The words must have elicited from Poillon a knowing, if wry, smile; in the midst of his travails, Lawrence was looking ahead to the time when the cyclotron’s inconstancy would be merely a quaint memory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik