All 12 Uses
erratic
in
The Bourne Ultimatum
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- Pitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lake.†
erratic = irregular or unpredictable
- Well, chap, our buns could be in a collective sling, if you know what I mean-and your so vital but erratic telephone service does depend on a degree of Crown intervention, if you also know what I mean.†
- Alex took a deep breath, his breathing still erratic.†
- The loudspeakers on the beach erratically interrupted the winds and the thunder out of Basse-Terre.†
*erratically = in a manner that is irregular or unpredictable
- He woke up slowly, cautiously, the noise of the traffic in the streets below pounding up to his window, the metallic horns like the erratic cawing of angry crows amid the irregular bursts of angry engines, full bore one moment, abrupt quiet the next.†
erratic = irregular or unpredictable
- The closer he came to the last corner, the more he became aware of the undulating, erratic sounds from apparently different directions.†
- Flanking the procession were four drummers, two on each side, their snare drums snapping out the slow cadence of the death march, erratically out of sequence because of the unexpected rocks and the unseen flat grave markers in the darkness of the bordering grass.†
erratically = in a manner that is irregular or unpredictable
- From inside came the sound of erratic gunfire, sudden bursts accompanied by screams of panic, followed by additional bursts.†
erratic = irregular or unpredictable
- Forcibly, their charge in a sweating, erratically breathing trance, the five men walked rapidly to the front of the restaurant; there the uncontrollable hysteria again seized the Chameleon.†
erratically = in a manner that is irregular or unpredictable
- It was a hot day, and as usual the air conditioning was only barely and erratically adequate, so General Grigorie Rodchenko permitted himself a privilege of rank: his collar was open.†
- "Sometimes simplicity backed by authority is best in deception," observed Krupkin as the Citroën was maneuvered between the sparse, erratic traffic across the wide avenue to the entrance of the white-stone apartment complex.†
erratic = irregular or unpredictable
- The beams were erratically piercing everywhere!†
erratically = in a manner that is irregular or unpredictable
Definitions:
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(1)
(erratic) irregular or unpredictable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)