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
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 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
