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

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

Just now, therefore, Francis Lingen flowed murmuring on his way, like a purling brook, rippling, fluctuant, carrying insignificant straws, insects of the hour, on his course, never jamming, or heaving up, monotonous but soothing.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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