Sentence examples for proved predictable from inspiring English sources

The top of the rankings proved predictable only in its unpredictability, like a game of Chutes and Ladders for the college hoops set.

Against that background, Wales scrum-half Webb also proved predictable, continuing a habit he has become renowned for by dummying his way over for the first of six first-half tries, converted by Leigh Halfpenny.

In addition, the steric effects of the newly created stereocenters in subsequent reactions of chroman ketals and acetals were studied and proved predictable.

According to commuters at Redhill station, in a part of Surrey whose residents rely heavily on Southern, the emergency timetable has proved more predictable but at a cost.

Overall, as both managers agreed, quality told and the fact that Tottenham were missing the injured Mousa Dembélé and also Gareth Bale, who withdrew shortly before kick-off to be with his pregnant girlfriend, proved a predictable handicap.

Black-eyed peas on the vegetarian plate were woefully under-seasoned, if they were seasoned at all; deviled eggs needed a little more devil in them; and a chocolate cake proved that predictable desserts know no regional boundaries.

Pappano's experience as a cocktail pianist came in useful here, and while his immaculate playing proved a predictable asset throughout, his humorous musical touches and witty asides were more of a surprise, matching DiDonato's rapport with the audience.

Although its dual-overhead-cam, 1.6-liter motor only put out 115 hp, that was good enough to propel the light Miata to over 100mph, and for winding roads its independent suspension proved agile, predictable and pure fun.

Not particularly well acted, it overstays its welcome and proves simultaneously predictable as a sports film and unconvincing as family drama.

I still think there are contradictions within Lavery's argument: on one level she is out to prove the predictable banality of the killer, yet Agnetha describes Ralph as "mesmerising like a rattlesnake".

This will be a fight in unfamiliar terrain that is still plagued by outlaws and groups of armed warriors, a war that could prove less predictable and riskier for American and allied troops than the air campaign and proxy ground war of the first stage of the conflict.