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Example sentences for "oscillated"

Lexicographically close words:
orum; oryx; osa; oscillate; oscillates; oscillating; oscillation; oscillations; oscillator
  1. His mind oscillated undoubtedly, but the extreme points of the oscillation were not very remote.

  2. His weak and unprincipled mind oscillated between servility and insolence.

  3. The lantern oscillated violently, and went out.

  4. I oscillated or vacillated between these two lines of thought.

  5. At every place, the plane in which the lamps oscillated was nearly constant, the deviations being generally attributable to irregularities in the mode of suspension.

  6. The planes in which their pendulums oscillated are shown by the lines lettered A, B, C, and D in Fig.

  7. But scarcely had he reached halfway the length of the branch, than he perceived with horror that the tree, broken by the fall of the avalanche, oscillated under him.

  8. A motion was now produced by the monkeys striking other branches with their feet, until the long string oscillated back and forwards like the pendulum of a clock.

  9. His body, which followed every jolt, scarcely allayed by the worn-out springs, rolled from one side to the other and his head oscillated on his shoulders, as if the muse of his neck were broken.

  10. It seemed to him that the pavement oscillated beneath his feet, and that everything about him was turning round.

  11. For a while he oscillated between history and legend, as best adapted to furnish his material.

  12. The apex oscillated forwards and backwards in the same manner as before; but the jerks forward were less in extent, viz.

  13. We thus see that the sub-peduncle oscillated up and down, or circumnutated, during its whole downward epinastic course.

  14. A tracing was not made, but the angles were measured at successive periods during one whole day; and these showed that the movement was not continuous, but that the peduncle oscillated up and down.

  15. The leaflet stood horizontally when at a point a little beneath the middle of the diagram; so that during the daytime it oscillated almost equally above and beneath a horizontal position.

  16. On the second day, when more accustomed to its new state, it oscillated twice up and twice down during the 24 h.

  17. During the middle of the day it oscillated much up and down.

  18. During the second day it oscillated four times up and four times down between 8 A.

  19. A shout came faintly through the roar of water in the gulf below, and the dark mass oscillated violently, but otherwise remained immovable.

  20. She held her breath when it stopped, and swung perilously beside the pine trunk which oscillated too, and then clenched her fingers viciously as it rose and apparently clutched at something overhead.

  21. The skeleton and the creatures around it oscillated vaguely in the reflections of the subterranean water which trembled upon the roof and wall.

  22. The hammock oscillated like a swing in a tempest.

  23. This position of the hand is described in full as open, raised high, and oscillated from right to left.

  24. This consists of the palm turned to the person addressed with the index somewhat extended and separated from the other fingers, the whole hand being oscillated from right to left.

  25. His mind had long oscillated between Hobbism and Popery.

  26. Between them has always been a great mass, which has not steadfastly adhered to either, which has sometimes remained inertly neutral, and which has sometimes oscillated to and fro.

  27. For his opinions oscillated in contented suspense between infidelity and Popery.

  28. It bared its teeth, rapidly oscillated its eyebrows, and assumed the most threatening attitude it could command.

  29. As to the method of election, opinions oscillated back and forth for several weeks.

  30. The schemes that were seriously considered oscillated back and forth between an election by the national legislature and an election by a special college of electors.

  31. Power oscillated between the Conservative and Reform parties, and two general elections, held within as many years, failed to solve the difficulty.

  32. It was like a dream itself, the silence of it as they were borne forward upon those soft, shuffling sponge feet, and the flitting, flickering figures which oscillated upon every side of them.

  33. Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams, of Boston, whose narrow, happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church?

  34. The Stoic was nominally a pantheist, but he seems to have oscillated between a spiritual and a materialist explanation of the universal being.

  35. As a result monophysite theology oscillated between denial of the impassibility of God and denial of his three-fold personality.

  36. It was full of holes, and oscillated rather fearfully, even with the weight of a man leading his horse.

  37. The form of his Concerto, of which the principal movements varied from four to six, oscillated between the Suite and the Sonata, and even glanced towards the symphonic overture.

  38. In Coulomb's experiments a metal surface covered with tallow, and oscillated in water, had exactly the same resistance as a clean metal surface, and when sand was scattered over the tallow the resistance was only very slightly increased.

  39. The first direct experiments on fluid friction were made by Coulomb, who employed a circular disk suspended by a thin brass wire and oscillated in its own plane.

  40. Coulomb, for instance, oscillated a disk under water, first with atmospheric pressure acting on the water surface, afterwards with the atmospheric pressure removed.

  41. Carriages dashed by, cabs oscillated down the roads.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oscillated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.