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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    To the southwest, a fluctuating column of light is playing back and forth against the low overhanging cloud layer.†  (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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    FATHER WILHELM KLEINSORGE BACK IN THE HOSPITAL in Tokyo for the second time, Father Kleinsorge was suffering from fever, diarrhea, wounds that would not heal, wildly fluctuating blood counts, and utter exhaustion.†  (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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    No perceptual brain activity, no fluctuation in facial temperature.†  (source)
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