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
With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
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
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
