undulate
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The heavy concrete roof is actually suspended just above the walls, and seems to undulate, letting more light through in a thin opening above the altar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In the area with cold plunging and a sauna, the walls undulate with patterns that change color, designed to evoke arctic caves and volcanic rock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Like I said before, most worms on planet Earth—well, those visible to the naked eye— have a lot of chambers and undulate, which isn’t very sandworm-ish.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
A helical structure on the underside of the sheet rotates like a corkscrew to cause the carpet to undulate and create a travelling wave on the water.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
I watched its hefty coils undulate down the tree trunk with astonishing grace and disappear into the bushes.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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It rumbles and undulates across the floor, like a lonely camel enduring across a windswept desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Much like the style itself, the popularity of ruffles undulates through the decades.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
The track undulates and thickens, then dissolves before revealing too many secrets.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
I’m not really thinking, just flowing along with my bike as the trail undulates and crosses a road before heading through a thicket.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
It undulates, just as it does in Normandy, up and down over low-lying hills, and the straight roads, bordered with coca palm trees, reminded me forcibly of the poplar avenues round Rouen.
From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey
Smucker’s suit against Trader Joe’s alleges that the grocer infringed on trademarks by mimicking Uncrustables’ round, pie-like shape and “distinct peripheral undulated crimping.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
World No. 3 Minjee Lee said that taking her time will be a key on the blue course’s sloped fairways and undulated greens this week.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
As it has done since antiquity, the fragrant smoke undulated skyward, a thin thread seeking to unite us on earth with something above.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
Panguana’s name comes from the local word for the undulated tinamou, a species of ground bird common to the Amazon basin.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
He undulated back toward the voice in one terrific shove, to show off.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Then Curry, undulating ever so slightly, delivers his first lines in a cavernous register, seated someplace between a purr and a growl.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
McIlroy says he does not feel pain while hitting shots but the 7,394 yard Aronimink is a demanding and undulating walk.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The 2026 gubernatorial contest has been an undulating, unpredictable whirlwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
On the long, undulating drive across the wheat fields up on the plateau, he had had a lot of time to think about where he was and where he was going.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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