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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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
Despite a push by the Legislature to offer more in-school support and housing resources, the number of students who are homeless or unstably housed has grown.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2019
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 walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the hardness and refractoriness of the strata composing them.
From The Vortex Blaster by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
