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

Sometimes at our feet, beneath the seamy fissures of a hillside, or far removed by sweep of meadow, lay the fluctuant mass we call the sea.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

Put forth thy wings, thy coronals of Love, wrap thee with fluctuant Winds and exulting Seas!

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

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

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