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undulate

[ UK /ˈʌndjʊlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈəndʒəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  2. occur in soft rounded shapes
    The hills rolled past
  3. move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
    The curtains undulated
    the waves rolled towards the beach
  4. increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
    The singer's voice undulated
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a wavy margin and rippled surface

How To Use undulate In A Sentence

  • The bridge's roadway undulates gently at first, then abruptly starts heaving and twisting violently until it finally breaks apart.
  • The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
  • In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
  • A completely irrational white translucent roof undulates over the space like a gentle cloud, or the sky seen from under water on a pellucid day.
  • Her face muscles contorted, her eyes turned black and her body began to undulate like a snake.
  • The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
  • In the water, his short legs, with his double-jointed knees and pliable ankles attached to size 14 feet, help him undulate like a dolphin. Built to swim, Phelps found a focus and refuge in water
  • The magnetosphere varies in size and shape, and its outer boundary - the magnetopause - gently undulates like a wave due to buffeting by the solar wind.
  • It is a magical place, truly a dream for the roving angler; outsize black bream, sole, conger, plaice, wrasse, undulate rays, tope, pollack and mullet reside within casting distance of the shore.
  • We soon see a field of wheat undulate in the breeze.
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