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

From time to time some one appeared clambering over heads and shoulders to make a desperate lunge and snatch at the flowers, and then fall back into the fluctuant heap again.

From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean

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

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