fallible - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: And this is before any consideration is given to making the machines less fallible.

Modifies a noun

  • being: We are fallible beings working our way through life.
  • memory: The question then seems to be whether one's admittedly fallible memory is adequate for the maintenance of meaning.
  • human: Rather, he would be a fallible human being who would be doing what in my view is the wrong thing ' ).
  • man: These authors were fallible men: their sinful failings are exhibited in Scripture for us.
  • knowledge: As we already emphasized in section 2, all agents have fallible knowledge, implying that the customers are prone to make wrong decisions.
  • people: Back to top O'Casey cares what is the effect of Pearse's and Connolly's words on ordinary, limited and fallible people.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: And yet, God is at work right now using a weak and very fallible man to speak to you, His people.
  • not: Initially he kept repeating that he was in the hands of God, not fallible human doctors.
  • all: Humanists were another matter of course, but then we're all fallible.
  • notoriously: Memories are notoriously fallible on material facts, vulnerable to suggestion, to rewriting, to complete erasure.
  • therefore: Because readers understand that the first person showcases a human and therefore fallible perspective, writers can tell two different stories at once.
  • always: Science is simply our best human guesswork ( always fallible ) about the ' How ' question.

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: And it proved just as fallible, just as corrupt and just as oppressive as anything that had gone before it.
  • look: The Ivory Coast continue to look fallible at the back.
  • become: All Scripture has passed through human instrumentality; consequently, all Scripture has become fallible.

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