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
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
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
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
Love cast about for Expression—for work, which is Love in Expression, And the fluctuant tissues of life began burgeoning, blooming and fruiting.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
