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
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
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
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
