fluctuant
Example Sentences
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The result was an unflattering portrait that emphasized "strong, although fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm."
From Time Magazine Archive
The dawn that imbues and enkindles Life's fluctuant and fugitive sea Dies down as the starshine that dwindles And cares not to be.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Creative Power" which eternally works and weaves: "In the tides of Life, in Action's storm, A fluctuant wave, A shuttle free, Birth and the Grave, An eternal sea, A weaving, flowing Life, all-glowing.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
She seemed to be clothed in fluctuant light, and yet it could not dim one radiance of her beauty.
From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia
In the middle of the camp Daddy John's fire flared, the central point of illumination in a ring of fluctuant yellow.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
