| 1. | Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 2. | The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | With cheerful alacrity he dodged the stones flung after him with friendly, erratic aim by the girl upon whom, yesterday afternoon, he had come to make a social call. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | "And now," said he, "it really would be a good thing that we should all go over the house together and make certain that this rather erratic burglar did not, after all, carry anything away with him.. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | observation, understanding Th' erratic starres heark'ning harmony, With soundes full of heav'nly melody. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | She made the sombre crowd cheerful by her erratic and glistening ray, even as a bird of bright plumage illuminates a whole tree of dusky foliage by darting to and fro, half seen and half concealed amid the twilight of the clustering leaves. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 7. | In De Quincey the romantic element is even more strongly developed than in Lamb, not only in his critical work, but also in his erratic and imaginative life. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | Henry V--whose erratic yet vigorous life, as depicted by Shakespeare, was typical of the life of his times--first let Europe feel the might of the new national spirit. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | After a year of vagrancy and starvation he was found by his family and allowed to go to Oxford, where his career was marked by the most brilliant and erratic scholarship. - from English Literature by William J. Long |