Sample Sentences for
fluctuate
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    My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.  (source)
    fluctuate = alternately increase and decrease
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    Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly — they came to gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and Associated Traction would have to fluctuate profitably next day.  (source)
    fluctuate = change
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    The cable was erected in 1970 to chart the Teklanika's seasonal fluctuations; hydrologists traveled back and forth above the river by means of an aluminum basket that is suspended from the cable with pulleys.  (source)
    fluctuations = increases and decreases
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    Temperature ten minutes ago was 100.8—it's been fluctuating for several hours.†  (source)
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    So I conclude that some other phenomenon, such as a new variety of flu, is causing the fluctuations you see in the graph.  (source)
    fluctuations = increases and decreases
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    I want to see the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.  (source)
    fluctuated = alternately changed
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    Cattle markets tend to fluctuate a lot, and some years, you don't make much of anything.†  (source)
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    Many people waved to him—the lifted hand motionless, the fingers fluctuant, like the legs of insects on their backs.†  (source)
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    It continuously fluctuates up and down.  (source)
    fluctuates = alternately increases and decreases
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    To the southwest, a fluctuating column of light is playing back and forth against the low overhanging cloud layer.†  (source)
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    I'd never heard an animal bellow like that, with such fluctuations in tone and pitch.  (source)
    fluctuations = changes
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    The computer reported no change in pressure over that time, other than a minor fluctuation based on temperature.†  (source)
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