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

Along her sensitive, fluctuant nostrils the casual crinkle of distaste and suspicion had deepened suddenly into sheer dilating terror.

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.

From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

The quest of what abides in a fluctuant world as the binding thread of human history.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

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