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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Our measly four seasons are insufficient in describing the way nature undulates around us, week to week and month to month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sit on the mattress’ edge and it wobbles and undulates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
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
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 Davey, Richard
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
For stroke play, the undulated greens and pins tucked on crowns made it difficult in spots to find birdies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
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
Robert Hooke evidently saw clouds perfectly clearly when he asked, ‘What is the reason of the various Figure of the Clouds, undulated, hairy, crisped, coyled, confus’d, and the like?’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Wispy fescue and undulating and fast greens add further layers of complexity to Shinnecock's fearsome reputation.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The world's best struggled to get to grips with the task presented by an undulating course with thick rough and sloping greens.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The 2026 gubernatorial contest has been an undulating, unpredictable whirlwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
CÚCUTA, Colombia—Amid the coca-leaf farms in the undulating borderlands of Colombia and Venezuela, neither country’s government wields power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
I tried hacking at the tongue with my shears, but it was too sinewy and tough, a rope of undulating muscle, and my shears too dull.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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