Sample Sentences for
fickle
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    Now and then he caught a phrase like, "Fame's a fickle friend, Harry," or "Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that."  (source)
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    Speaking in short, matter-of-fact phrases, they worry aloud over the fickle weather and fields of sunflowers still too wet to cut, while above their heads Ross Perot s sneering visage flickers across a silent television screen.  (source)
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    They passed the Fickle Fountain, an elaborately carved monument that occasionally spat out water in which young children played.  (source)
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    Afghan men, especially those from reputable families, were fickle creatures.  (source)
    fickle = quick to change their minds
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    Oh, dear, it seems that I'm more hurt than I thought I was by your fickleness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The next day, by divine intervention or the fickle humors of the tropics, the sky broke open and rain poured down.  (source)
    fickle = quick to change
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    As true as I live, he's dying for you; breaking his heart at your fickleness: not figuratively, but actually.†  (source)
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    But the government was fickle.  (source)
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    " 'No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy: " I quoted.†  (source)
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    But having long since lost interest in the fickle course of human affairs, they dropped to the floor and trotted back to the drawing room without a second glance.  (source)
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    For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable—they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness—and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.†  (source)
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    But emotions are a fickle thing, and even though I am certain that with prayer and time I will find the same healing he has, I struggle with feelings of loneliness and vulnerability and the temptation to despair.  (source)
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    Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.†  (source)
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