Sample Sentences for
pendulum
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    Increase the swing of the pendulum, increase, increase, come up and bear against that point of furthest balance— increase—increase— "Heave!"  (source)
    pendulum = something heavy that swings back and forth
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    The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop.  (source)
    pendulum = change to the opposite direction
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    The measured movement of the pendulum disturbed them not at all.  (source)
    pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity -- such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
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    They had no right to swing me back and forth like a pendulum on a clock.†  (source)
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    Physics has had great success at describing certain kinds of behavior: planets in orbit, spacecraft going to the moon, pendulums and springs and rolling balls, that sort of thing.†  (source)
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    He pulled his belt from the loops of his pants and held it with the buckle end penduluming back and forth by the floor.†  (source)
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    His tie is a pendulum, long dead in its clock.†  (source)
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    The hard part for them back then was inventing a clock that would work on a boat (pendulums don't work on boats).†  (source)
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    The pendulum swings on and on in the old grandfather clock.†  (source)
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    Coming through the door into the kitchen, he saw the pots and pans swinging like pendulums from their hooks.†  (source)
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    The clock ticks with its pendulum, keeping time; my feet in their neat red shoes count the way down.†  (source)
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    And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.†  (source)
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    We walked quickly past the Octopus and another ride that looked like a swinging-ax pendulum.†  (source)
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