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
Somewhere fluctuant in my memory runs broken music—you have heard it?—"an ineffectual angel, beating his luminous wings within the void,"—something like that,—words descriptive of Shelley—they haunt me whenever I would recall Kristofer Hansteen.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
Put forth thy wings, thy coronals of Love, wrap thee with fluctuant Winds and exulting Seas!
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
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 Anna Bowman Dodd
With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
