Sentence example with the word 'oscillate'

oscillate

alternate, circle, come up again, fluctuate, nutate, reel, rock, shilly-shally, teeter-totter, vary, wheel

Definition v. be undecided about something

Last update: July 29, 2015


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Numbers have a quality and oscillate with a cosmic frequency.   [verb]

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This grading has the effect of creating an accelerating field within the base, which enables the device to oscillate at higher frequencies.   [verb]

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The lantern oscillated violently, and went out.   [verb]

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Does not that hideous balance, whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us.   [verb]

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The sample, arranged as a bundle of rectangular strips, is caused to rotate about a central horizontal axis between the poles of an upright C-shaped magnet, which is supported near 'its middle upon knife-edges in such a manner that it can oscillate about an axis in a line with that about which the specimen rotates; the lower side of the magnet is weighted, to give it some stability.   [Please select]

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The great half-round stone oscillated to and fro and then came to rest.   [Please select]

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The feelings do not so much advance like a river, as oscillate like a pendulum.   [Please select]

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His bar oscillated like the walking beam of a steamboat.   [Please select]

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The two prongs separate, oscillate rapidly, and a sound of a certain tone is heard.   [Please select]

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In this way it oscillated backward and forward not fewer than six times before traces of it were lost.   [Please select]

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I wanted a real gun most of all and my inclination oscillated between that and a red rocking horse.   [Please select]

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