All 3 Uses of
fluctuate
in
The Time Machine
- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.†
Chpt 3fluctuating = alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity
- What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!†
Chpt 3 *fluctuated = alternately increased and decreased in quantity
- The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.†
Chpt 12fluctuating = alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity
Definition:
to alternately increase and decrease in quantity