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
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
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
She seemed to be clothed in fluctuant light, and yet it could not dim one radiance of her beauty.
From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia
Creative Power" which eternally works and weaves: "In the tides of Life, in Action's storm, A fluctuant wave, A shuttle free, Birth and the Grave, An eternal sea, A weaving, flowing Life, all-glowing.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
