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

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

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

So my Dream fell dead; and the fluctuant passion —  The stress and strain of the past re-grew, The world laughed on in its heedless fashion,  But Earth whirled worthless, because of you!

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

Society at Balderville was of the fluctuant, intermittent order that obtains at minor resorts; the crop of visitors was bad or good, according to the year, like the peaches or cotton.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday