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

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

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

Society at Balderville was of the fluctuant, intermittent order that obtains at minor resorts; the crop of visitors was bad or good, according to the year, like the peaches or cotton.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

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