Sample Sentences for
undulate
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    (NICK and MARTHA move apart now and dance on either side of where GEORGE and HONEY are sitting; they face each other, and while their feet move but little, their bodies undulate congruently. . . . . It is as if they were pressed together)  (source)
    undulate = move in a smooth wave-like motion
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    Above, the surface of the water was an undulating mirror of brightness,  (source)
    undulating = rippling
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    If you had watched your patient carefully you would have seen this undulation in every department of his life—his interest in his work, his affection for his friends, his physical appetites, all go up and down.  (source)
    undulation = wave-like movement
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    John was asleep and I hated to waken him, so I kept still and watched the moonlight on that undulating wall-paper till I felt creepy.  (source)
    undulating = wavy or rippled
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    There were gentle undulations where the stone had once been fluted.†  (source)
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    The darkness to the east undulated and flickered in the rays of the rising sun.†  (source)
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    The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain.  (source)
    undulation = smooth wave-like motion
    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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    Ford pressed a large red button at the bottom of the screen and words began to undulate across it.†  (source)
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    The interference undulates and rises.  (source)
    undulates = makes a smooth wave-like motion (physical or auditory)
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    She trilled along, and trilled along, and presently a handsome young page, clothed like the rainbow, and as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something on a golden salver, and, kneeling to present it to her, overdid his graces and lost his balance, and so fell lightly against her knee.†  (source)
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    For hours, Esperanza watched the undulating land pass in front of her.†  (source)
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    It proceeded along the lower end of the playing fields, and under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me in slight frosty undulations which bespoke meanings upon meanings, levels of reality I had never suspected before, a kind of thronging and epic grandeur which my superficial eyes and cluttered mind had been blind to before.†  (source)
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    She rolled over and over while the floating mattress undulated beneath her.†  (source)
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