unstable
adjective
not stable; not firm or firmly fixed; unsteady.
unstably
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a word derived from
unstable.
Example Sentences
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“It’s unacceptable that workers working 24 hours a day with people in crisis are unstably housed themselves,” said Jessie Friedmann, director of public policy at YouthCare, which she said has a 70% staff turnover rate.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
We looked at the numbers in our bank statement and they quivered unstably, like a hallucination, like Scrooge's worst nightmare shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas in Chapter 11.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020
By its very nature, queerness should reside in a sea of ambiguity, unstably morphing through androgynous and fluid forms, as brilliantly depicted in Virginia Woolf’s novel of spontaneous gender transformation, Orlando.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2019
While most 10-year-olds freely run and jump around, Alexis walks- albeit sometimes unstably and with help going up and down stairs.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2015
The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations.
From Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
