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How to use reliable in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Reliable means suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy. Example: “The most reliable simulation predicts that the hurricane will turn north.”

Examples of reliable by meaning

nounSomething or someone reliable or dependable.

  • the old reliables

More sentences with reliable

  • The most reliable simulation predicts that the hurricane will turn north.From the entry simulation
  • Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.From the entry sample
  • He's quite reliable even though occasionally he exhibits some squirrelliness for fun.From the entry squirrelliness
  • His reputability was in question, if he couldn't prove he was reliable then no one would hire him again.From the entry reputability
  • The ferry boat is too big to be paddleable in any practical sense; reliable engine power is crucial.From the entry paddleable
  • But the need for modern, reliable, frequent and clean modes of transport has never gone away.2023 October 18, Noel Dolphin, “Climate resilience in an era of budget cuts”, in RAIL, number 994, page 38. From the entry go away
  • Plus the black market intel's less reliable.” “Captain, we need a solid lead.”2023 October 26, Mike McMahan, “The Inner Fight” (10:28 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 9, spoken by Bouncer…. From the entry bup-bup-bup
  • Enums can be a powerful aide in your quest to produce reliable, robust software.2021, Tim McNamara, Rust in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry stringly-typed
  • A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The…. From the entry WikiProject
  • In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial.2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions…. From the entry impulsivity
  • Vanity is one of the hardest working and most reliable caregivers we have ever had.2020 July 7, “June 2020 Caregiver of The Month”, in BOOM!, page 32. From the entry vanity
  • Unless a reliable Lithuanian scholar testifies, these can not be taken at face value.2020 September 26, @crselvakumar1, Twitter. From the entry Wikt
  • It's about being reliable, trustworthy, loyal and true to your beliefs.2019, Charles Staunton, “Cop this Bloke”, in The Good Bloke: An Incredible True Story, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN. From the entry bloke
  • Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317. From the entry homicidally
  • Less glamorous than being a Chili Queen, perhaps—but the work was reliable and profitable.2016, Sarah Lohman, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, page 72. From the entry chili queen
  • The degree to which his "pedanticness" reaches is a reliable measurement of his ire.2015, Dane Mc Caslin, A Bird in the Hand, →ISBN. From the entry pedanticness
  • The most reliable stickman on the floor, Jimmy McGuire, was running the table.2014, Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic (Star Trek: The Next Generation), New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry stickman
  • One patient wanted the flap reviewed for esthetic reasons. sural and supramalleolar flaps are very reliable.2014 March 18, Alexandre Carvalho Quirino, Karen Cristina Viegas, “Fasciocutaneous flaps for covering foot and ankle injuries☆☆☆”, in…. From the entry supramalleolar
  • To be loyal means to stick by someone and to prove yourself dependable and reliable.2008, Larry Schats, Walking with the Word: Daily Ventures Into 15 Books of the Bible, page 12. From the entry stick by
  • Polyethylene pipe can be joined using a butt fusion process, which creates a reliable leak-free joint.2002, Arun K. Deb, Decision Support System for Distribution System Piping Renewal, →ISBN. From the entry butt fusion
  • If we had more reliable systems of law and governance, perhaps our friendships would be shallower.2002, Kamila Shamsie, Kartography, Bloomsbury (2003), page 209. From the entry Karachiite
  • This is the angler's catch phrase for one of those rare, reliable places that always hold fish.2000 April 30, Pete Bodo, “Outdoors: A Presence at the Source of the Noble Brookie”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jun 2020. From the entry honey hole
  • Environmental problems are not objectively existing physical phenomena amenable to reliable analysis and diagnosis.1995, Ian Robottom, Hart Paul, “Behaviorist EE Research: Environmentalism as Individualism”, in The Journal of Environmental Education…. From the entry metamorphose
  • When a grandmother from Pittsburgh bought a Samsung, she bought the most reliable microwave oven made.1990 April 23, Luce, Henry Robinson, Fortune. From the entry Samsung
  • These electric motorlike devices generally are rugged, reliable performers with sufficient resolution for most machine applications.1986, Douglas M Considine, Glenn D Considine, Standard handbook of industrial automation. From the entry motorlike
  • Vise-like clamping action of lid remover jaws assures reliable lid removal every time.1983, Processed Prepared Food - Volume 152, page 87. From the entry delid
  • Moreover, many hardrock areas are drought-prone, making irrigation essential for reliable cropping.1982, Leslie Abbie, Leslie A. Abbie, James Q. Harrison, Economic Return to Investment in Irrigation in India, page 31. From the entry hardrock
  • To relieve any anxieties on your part, locate a reliable neighbor to plant-sit while you are away.1977, Gardening in containers, page 27. From the entry plant-sit
  • The quarto's punctuation and lineation, however, are much less reliable than its language.1966, Lawrence J. Ross, “Introduction”, in Cyril Tourneur [now thought to be by Thomas Middleton], edited by Lawrence J. Ross, The…. From the entry question mark
  • More reliable chronicles, however, have recorded his trip overland from Hangchow to Kuei-chou.1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming…. From the entry Hangchow
  • He had a most suitable boat available, with a crew of two very reliable Hylams.1949, W: Freddie Spencer Chapman , “Force 136”, in The Jungle is Neutral, Edinburgh: Birlinn (2006), page 196. From the entry Hylam
  • Mario said, no doubt truly, that it took a year to make a reliable cafetier.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry cafetier
  • For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.1928, Robert V. Sawyer, Edwin H. Perkins, Water Gardens and Goldfish, page 92. From the entry telescope
  • Linkman and Laver in Budge Row, perhaps—reliable, not too conspicuous, only nodding acquaintances.1922, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 3, ch. 5. From the entry nodding acquaintance
  • The author considers purgen (phenolphthalein) generally reliable as a cathartic, but one attended with some danger.1908, Norbert Ortner, Nathaniel Bowditch Potter, Frederic Huntington Bartlett, Treatment of Internal Diseases: For Physicians and…. From the entry purgen
  • Would not reliable information as to coming fashions be of equal interest to the average woman?1902 April, “Good Advertising for Wide-awake Retailers”, in The Canadian Dry Goods Review, volume XII, number 4, Montreal, Que.; Toronto…. From the entry tabloid
  • It was very reliable at the start, but the last six months have been challenging, to say the least.2024 March 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR launches Reading-Paddington recovery operation”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 7. From the entry to say the least
  • However, they said too few women in England had been prescribed nonhormonal IUDs to make a reliable comparison.2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives…. From the entry England
  • He is also the more reliable friend of Ukraine.2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times. From the entry sunny

Meaning of reliable

  1. adjective Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy.
  2. adjective Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't.
  3. noun Something or someone reliable or dependable.

Full definition of reliable

Questions about reliable in a sentence

How do you use reliable in a sentence?
Reliable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The most reliable simulation predicts that the hurricane will turn north.”
What is a short sentence with reliable?
“the old reliables”
What does reliable mean?
Reliable means suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reliable (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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