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

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

The dawn that imbues and enkindles Life's fluctuant and fugitive sea Dies down as the starshine that dwindles And cares not to be.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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