Sample Sentences for
oscillate
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  • For my entire life, I had oscillated between fear at my worst moments and a sense of safety and stability at my best.  (source)
    oscillated = swung back and forth
  • I oskillate (mispronounces oscillate) between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam.  (source)
    oscillate = waver between conflicting emotions or opinions
  • All morning, I oscillate between worrying about Hana and thinking of Alex.  (source)
    oscillate = swung back and forth
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  • She brought pillows and blankets in case we got stranded somewhere, an oscillating fan in case she got hot, plus...  (source)
    oscillating = swing from side to side regularly
  • A shaft of light oscillated back and forth, scanning her eyeball like a copy machine.  (source)
    oscillated = swung back and forth
  • Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.†  (source)
  • Then I'd outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter.†  (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.
  • He continued to circle and pinch and oscillate.†  (source)
  • Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.†  (source)
  • In under a minute, he has built an oscillator to match the schematic.†  (source)
  • The oscillatory motion was imparted to this by one tentacle of the handling-machine.†  (source)
  • We got a whole back room full of your audio oscillators, gunshot machines, contact mikes, everything, man.†  (source)
  • But when her eyes focus on it, she sees nothing except the oscillating door, same as before.†  (source)
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