All 4 Uses of
fluctuate
in
The War of the Worlds
- Men like Schiaparelli watched the red planet—it is odd, by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well.†
Chpt 1.1
- Dense clouds of smoke or dust, visible through a powerful telescope on earth as little grey, fluctuating patches, spread through the clearness of the planet's atmosphere and obscured its more familiar features.†
Chpt 1.1
- It was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, with, I am told, a rapidly fluctuating barometer.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- But the Martians were lifted above all these organic fluctuations of mood and emotion.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(fluctuate) to alternately increase and decrease in quantity