Sample Sentences for
oscillate
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    I have heard that Sanaubar's suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries of infidelity.  (source)
    oscillating = swinging
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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
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    I oskillate (mispronounces oscillate) between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam.  (source)
    oscillate = waver between conflicting emotions or opinions
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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
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    A shaft of light oscillated back and forth, scanning her eyeball like a copy machine.  (source)
    oscillated = swung back and forth
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    Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.†  (source)
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    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.
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    At the very top of the plume, in the greatest violence and turmoil, the water is beaten and pulverized into a fine mist, and the air that is pushed out of the way by the upward jet of water propels the mist in its own arc until it slowly begins to sink in diaphanous curtains that oscillate in the breeze.†  (source)
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    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)
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    In under a minute, he has built an oscillator to match the schematic.†  (source)
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    We got a whole back room full of your audio oscillators, gunshot machines, contact mikes, everything, man.†  (source)
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    The oscillatory motion was imparted to this by one tentacle of the handling-machine.†  (source)
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    But when her eyes focus on it, she sees nothing except the oscillating door, same as before.†  (source)
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