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Example sentences for "undulating"

Lexicographically close words:
undue; undulant; undulate; undulated; undulates; undulation; undulations; undulatory; undulatus; unduly
  1. On the left, and in the front, rose a succession of slightly undulating hills, which, at a distance of little more than half a mile, terminated in an elevation considerably above the immediate level of the Detroit side of the ravine.

  2. It is only the size of a lark, and it is difficult to observe the bird well either on its nest or during its short undulating flight.

  3. The white country road stretched in an undulating line to right and left, its smooth surface mottled with patches of sunlight and tracts of refreshing shade.

  4. Most of the sand is in sand sheets and sand seas--vast regions of undulating dunes resembling ocean waves "frozen" in an instant of time.

  5. Sand sheets are flat, gently undulating sandy plots of sand surfaced by grains that may be too large for saltation.

  6. It is more agreeably irregular and undulating in its surface, and has a more rural aspect, and the groves and plants are better arranged, although it has not the statues, lakes, and fountains of the pride of Paris.

  7. As previously stated, the hall of Adlington stands in the midst of an undulating and well-timbered park, from the higher parts of which the views are extensive and pleasingly diversified.

  8. Looking across the country the high downs are seen with their broad green cloud-mottled shoulders, half-hiding the undulating hills that stretch away along the dim blue line of the horizon.

  9. Varna is a seaport, surrounded by an undulating country of park-like appearance, and the troops were upon their arrival delighted with their new quarters.

  10. This side of the triangle continued along over the undulating ground, and some three miles farther, reached the right flank of the position of the Allies above Sebastopol, which formed the base of our imaginary triangle.

  11. Every day fresh troops arrived, English and French, and the whole of the undulating plain round Gallipoli was dotted with their camps.

  12. It mounted to the plateau north of the harbor, wound along near the great north fort, and then across undulating land parallel with the sea.

  13. Great bodies of infantry were marching across the undulating plain.

  14. Forty li from our sleeping place we came to the pretty town of Shachiaokai, on some undulating high ground well sheltered with trees.

  15. Tali is situated on the undulating ground that shelves gently from the base of snow-clad mountains down to the lake.

  16. The ground was undulating grassland with an occasional outcrop of sandy desert, and movement was fairly easy.

  17. Not until a mile or so from Nejilah did the scenery improve and then a stretch of undulating grassland presented itself; a restful change for our tired eyes after a lengthy stay on the glaring yellow desert.

  18. For several hours under glorious weather conditions the Brigade pushed forward across the undulating country and found no signs of the enemy except his numerous dumps which he had left hurriedly behind him.

  19. The position of assembly was some two miles south-east of the left flank of the Kauwukah System, and under cover of the undulating ground we waited for the result of the 74th Divisional attack.

  20. Some of the pillars, instead of ending in regular capitals, are surmounted by a narrow projecting rim, carved with undulating lines.

  21. She felt she should always hate the distant line of undulating hills!

  22. This year, the little Hampshire farms and homesteads, all along the railway, cannot have looked either cosy or picturesque; and the distant line of undulating hills must have been completely hidden by fog and mist.

  23. Oh, look at the undulating line of those distant hills!

  24. The black hills behind the camp loomed like shadowy phantoms against the sky; far and wide slept the silent pampa, its undulating surface illumined by the rays of a lovely moon.

  25. It is the hour of sunset, a sunset that bathes the undulating line of the hills in gold and mauve, and lights up the dismal waters of the flooded Meuse.

  26. III They ran to a sloop that lay near by; They roused their neighbors, with hue and cry; They doffed their hats, gave three loud cheers, And called for a crew of volunteers.

  27. Mistress Hale, "For truth is fallen in the street, and falsehoods vile prevail.

  28. They buy our scalps exciting savage clans, In children's blood for to imbue their hands, Assisted by their cruel Gallic bands.

  29. Treaties and oaths they always did break thro', They never did nor would keep faith with you By popes and priests indulged so to do.

  30. Cleave liquid mountains of the foaming flood, And tinge the billows with the Gallic blood, A faithful drubbing to their future good.

  31. Among the many songs composed to celebrate the event, one, "Off from Boston," gained wide popularity.

  32. Three buckshot and a ball, With a hymn-tune for a wad to make them stay!

  33. Honor, then, for all time be To the brave Montgomery!

  34. No--be there must beyond the billowy waste Islands, and men, and animals, and trees.

  35. St. Saviour had looked On the heretic sail, As the songs of the Huguenot Rose on the gale.

  36. Samuel Adams was perhaps the first to proclaim this as the only solution of the problem which confronted the colonies.

  37. The Monedo of the white man comes with vengeance in his train!

  38. It was one undulating ocean of snow,—not a sign of a human habitation to be seen, and even the trees indistinguishable from the general mass by their whitened and overladen branches.

  39. The terrain over which the attack was to be made is a gently undulating expanse of farm lands stripped naked by the incessant storm of shell-fire and closely pitted with shell-holes and craters.

  40. Two solitary people, a man and a woman, are walking through a soft, undulating country.

  41. Soft, undulating valleys, gently spreading hills conforming to the Hogarthian line of beauty, are especially favoured.

  42. Soft, undulating valleys and gently swelling hills are spread around, the flowers are in bloom, and the leaves glance in the sunshine.

  43. Here there grow the same slender trees upon a delicate, undulating soil.

  44. He knew also the scenes of nature which she contemplated, the streets through which she passed, and the banks along which she sauntered with an undulating step.

  45. The houses, hundreds upon hundreds of them, were of the typical Canal Zone architecture, double-galleried and screened from foundation to eaves, and they rambled over the undulating pasture land in a magnificent disregard of distance.

  46. A ridge of volcanic mountains extends through the centre, rising into lofty peaks, and skirted by undulating hills and rich plains, where the cabins of the natives peep out from beneath groves of cocoanut and other luxuriant trees.

  47. They continued on for upwards of a hundred miles; with vast prairies extending before them as they advanced; sometimes diversified by undulating hills, but destitute of trees.

  48. The mountain-ranges to the south were like an undulating sea, divided from us by lesser hills and little plains, with here and there valleys, green and cultivated; but the prevailing character of the scenery was rocky and barren.

  49. The undulating line shows the contour of the surface, and the shading lines the veins.

  50. The crimped borders exhibit different degrees of serration, from the full leaves themselves to a gentle undulating line, which latter sometimes merges into a perfect circle.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undulating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    billowy; pendulous; rolling; undulant; waving; wavy