The gem-salt oscillates from zechstein to muschelkalk.
Bonpland and myself visited, gneiss forms a less marked zone, and oscillates more frequently towards granite than mica-slate.
The planet discharges its pole in the neighbourhood of the sun, like a cork pellet, and reloads of itself at a distance from the sun; and thus oscillates to and fro, like the hammer in an electrical bell.
The light emerges from the centre; the gravity occupies the whole mass; the motion oscillates between the two.
It oscillates in the principal antagonism between the corolla and pistil, which is the antagonism of leaf and stem, that of electrism and chemism, of light and body, of spirit and matter.
The development of all other systems oscillatesin this antagonism of blood and nerves.
Growth oscillates between the process of decomposition and that of fermentation; it is an uninterrupted fermentation.
Throughout all her regions she oscillates from tension to vis viva, from vis viva to tension.
Consider the case of a common clock pendulum, which oscillates to and fro, and which might be expected to generate corresponding pulses in the air.
The organic kingdom as a whole oscillates between these two contrary rules which fix limits each upon the other and which suffice to explain the successive appearance through the ages of different forms of life.
Its center oscillates somewhere to the southwest of the Azores.
Thus the mass oscillates about the position of equilibrium, and the oscillations are successively smaller and smaller in extent, and die out as their energy is expended finally in doing work against friction.
As the bob oscillates backwards and forwards the air in which it is immersed is periodically disturbed, and waves radiate outwards from it through the surrounding atmosphere.
Mrs. Swiggs breaks out suddenly, then twitches her head and oscillates her chin.
He simply oscillates wildly from the excess of which he is conscious in others or in himself into the opposite excess, at imminent peril in either case to the ethical basis of civilization.
In short Rousseau oscillates between an Arcadian vision that is radiant but unreal, and a photographic and literal and often sordid reality.
He oscillates rapidly between the pole of realism as he conceives it, and the pole of romance, and so far as any serious philosophy is concerned, is left suspended in the void.
He often oscillates between the rationalistic and the emotional pole not only in other things but also in his cult of humanity.
It is equally hard if L-C has smaller capacity and inductance than ab so that it naturally oscillates faster.
The reason is that when the tube oscillates the average current in the plate circuit is not the same as the steady current which ordinarily flows between filament and plate.
In this fashion, the ionoscillates about the synchronous orbit.
In this way an ion oscillates about the midplane and vertical focusing is achieved.
The poet's mind cannot reach equilibrium; at best he oscillates between opposed extravagances; his final word is still a boutade, still an explosion.
This happened because the Oriental mind has no middle; it oscillates between extremes and passes directly from sense to mysticism, and back again; it lacks virile understanding and intelligence creative of form.
To the center of the beam there is attached a steel or agate knife-edge on which the beam oscillates when it rests on the agate plate.
A pointer is attached to the center of the beam, and as the beam oscillates this pointer moves in front of a scale near the base of the post.
The two impulses compound themselves to a vibration oblique in direction to the former one, but the pendulum still oscillates in a plane.
Suspended before you is a pendulum, which, when drawn aside and liberated, oscillates to and fro.
In some cases, it makes the complete tour of the heavens; in others, it merely oscillates around a mean position.
The twelve-days' festival, so to speak, oscillates to and fro about a fixed point, which is either the end of the year or the winter solstice.
He oscillatesfor some while between the Medium and the Enchantress, but finds the effort rather straining.
She repeatedly extrudes a short oviduct, whichoscillates right and left as though to graze the skin of the pod.
The end of the abdomen, continually palpitating, rapidly closing and opening its valves, oscillates right and left like a pendulum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oscillates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
