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

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

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

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