How To Use Undulation In A Sentence
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The wolds are the closest thing we have in this area to a hill, and those from hilly country would regard them as no more than casual undulations in the landscape.
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The poor, I found, believed that this pious exercise dispersed the evil spirits of the storm; while the better sort conceived that it occasioned some kind of undulation in the air, and so broke the continuity of the electric fluid.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches.
Brave New World
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Dance the grapevine step rocking undulation belly dancing move with press down arms using tips from a dance instructor in this free dance lesson video.
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At Diano Marina, as will be seen from the curve _b_, the shock again consisted of two phases, each beginning with a few subsultory vibrations and ending with horizontal undulations of much longer period.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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She started moving with him, seeking to match the repetitive undulation.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Roebling had, in effect, fashioned a single hollow beam as protection against cumulative undulations.
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` ` Seeing that the tasimeter is affected by a wider range of etheric undulations than the eye can take cognizance of, and is withal far more acutely sensitive, the probabilities are that it will open up hitherto inaccessible regions of space, and possibly extend the range of aerial knowledge as far beyond the limit obtained by the telescope as that is beyond the narrow reach of unaided vision. ''
Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1
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Before crossing the 50th meridian, the undulations arising from the distribution of land and water in the neighbourhood of these vast inland seas would receive considerable elucidation from the shorter intervals of observation, and after passing the 50th meridian the extent of undulation, as compared with that observed by the more southerly vessels, would be more distinctly marked by the three-hourly series.
The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.
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It is only two lines long, but its melody, in spooky mode IV, is filled with undulations which remind one of the journey of the Magi.
"We have seen his star in the east"
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Orography is the term used to describe undulations on the surface of the Earth of any size and shape, from small hills to major mountain ranges.
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As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid.
The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
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The country to the south of the last creek changed to a succession of plains of various sizes, extending mostly to the westward, and very open undulations scattered over with rather stunted trees of Grevillea mimosoides, G. ceratophylla, Terminalia, Bauhinia, and Balfouria? an apocynaceous tree.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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While burrowing, caecilians employ concertina locomotion, lateral undulation, and vermiform locomotion.
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Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
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The undulation is the work of two collaborators: it expresses both the nature of the object which provokes it and that of the nervous apparatus which is its vehicle.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
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Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women.
Undesirables
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The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations.
Spinifex and Sand
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The wooden hulls of the canoes would have bobbed on the desert of water, lapped by waves repeating and repeating the vastness of the earth in soft undulations.
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These walls have horizontal copings without undulations.
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The sound of undulation dappled with the scriptures of the sun.
My House In The Middle Of The Ocean
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The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
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Do an advanced foundation warm-up drill for reverse undulations with lessons from a belly dancer in this free video on belly dancing.
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If sonorous undulations excited vibration in every resistant object of the environment they would undoubtedly come to arrange themselves in an order resembling the extensity suggested by Vision, though the slower rate of transmission of sound would detract from the practical simultaneity in the effect which, as we have seen, largely accounts for the perception of visual extensity.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
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In the older theory of undulation, which considered the ether as an elastic medium, there was already talk of tiny particles contained in ponderable substances which could be set in motion by light vibrations.
Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture
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The undulations of the bilayer in those vestibules could obliterate the access to the channel causing brief flickers.
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A stone cross marks the most sacred point of the pass, the landscape beyond mellowing markedly from jagged, icy summits to rolling undulations.
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But the trail is a continuous series of undulations, and the tread way itself is very rocky and rooty, with short, steep climbs.
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Via this unbounded body, we encounter flows and vibrations and pulsations and undulations and strange sounds and indeterminable sights.
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Occasionally, the likeness was still closer, in the succession of sound, subsultory motion and concluding horizontal undulations.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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I love the warm wall of hips and thighs and belly, the anchoring tug of hands through my hair, the wild, sensuous undulations, drawing me in, like a moonward tide.
Insatiable
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There was a kind of undulation in her body, which ended in a little sob, which was hidden and stifled by her fingers.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
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Hoar in the moonbeams stood those graceful trees casting their moveless shadows upon the grass, and in the background crowning the undulations of the distance, in masses, were piled those woods among which lay the solitary tomb where the remains of my beloved mother rested.
Uncle Silas
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Of course, Stane Street was not totally straight: it had to take into account the undulations and natural barriers of British topography.
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The road followed the undulations of the landscape.
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The few leaders then saw clearly enough that if one form of energy is in reality merely an undulation or vibration among the particles of "ponderable" matter or of ether, all other manifestations of energy must be of the same nature.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
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The suspension was able to soak up major road undulations over rough terrain.
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Ambulocetus is cited as showing that spinal undulation evolved in whales before development of a tail fluke, but that claim was made when only one lumbar and one caudal vertebra were known.
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We may thus conclude, with Professor Mercalli, that the earthquake resulted from the almost immediate succession of two distinct shocks, in each of which the nearly vertical vibrations were more marked at the beginning, while the slower undulations predominated towards the close, those of the second phase generally becoming vorticose through the superposition of movements coming from different directions.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The dreamlike exoticism was heightened by a video performance of a '20s-style ballad, featuring the undulations of a laconic singer and a provocatively pierced nude male dancer.
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The altimetry geoid undulation is mainly conducted by convergence between two or three plates, and its components at short wavelength characterize tectonics within basins.
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Along the boundary lines of the county the country is more level, and the undulations more gradual, but in the central portion the acclivities are abrupt and high and the declivities sudden and deep.
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It will then be possible for us to understand that the consciousness formed into a dialyser of the undulation may reject that constant element which expresses the contribution of the nervous system, and may lay bare the variable element which corresponds to the object: so that an intestinal movement of the cerebral substance, brought to light by this analytical consciousness, may become the perception of an object.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
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Zafarraya, a loud sound like thunder was first heard, and before it ceased there came a violent subsultory movement preceded by a very brief oscillation, then a pause of one or two seconds, and lastly a more intense and longer series of undulations, the whole movement lasting 12 seconds.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The undulations of a wolf eel are mirrored in a wave, and a white-spotted boxfish is emphasized by painterly slashes of yellow.
Photo-Op: Deep-Hued Sea
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On June 2nd we crossed the last sand-ridge of the great northern desert, and before us spread the rolling gravel-covered undulations of sand, treeless except for an occasional beefwood or small clump of mulga, rolling away before us like a swelling ocean.
Spinifex and Sand
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The wide concave of cloud, of the monotonous hue of dull pewter, formed an unbroken hood over the level from horizon to horizon; beneath it, reflecting its wan lustre, was the glazed high-road which stretched, hedgeless and ditchless, past a directing-post where another road joined it, and on to the less regular ground beyond, lying like a riband unrolled across the scene, till it vanished over the furthermost undulation.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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As they peered out they could see where the seamless undulations of the ice cap began to fracture and crenellate, forming a corrugated flow that seemed to ripple off towards the west.
Crusader Gold
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Plant communities in the vicinity of the Amazon arise in accordance with the undulations of the terrain.
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However, behaviors that are outwardly different, such as the lateral bending of Melibe or the parapodial flapping and undulations of Clione and Aplysia brasiliana differ in their neuronal substrate.
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In addition, without the geoidal model, corrections due to undulations of vertical is impossible to undertake.
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And the chief reason for this undulation is that they play leading roles on the home front; leading to supporting roles on the work front.
Cathy Benko: Replace Corporate Ladders With Lattices
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There is a kind of undulation in the popularity of the great writers, even of the first rank.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Plant communities in the vicinity of the Amazon arise in accordance with the undulations of the terrain.
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This one is particularly difficult because of the undulation in the fairways and the demand that it puts on the second shot.
The Open 2011: Move to seaside has Darren Clarke on crest of a wave
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Rainfall is sporadic, and collects mainly in shallow gilgais - those characteristic undulations, mounds and depressions found extensively in the outback.
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Now let a prism be placed in the path of such rays of different wave length from a single molecule, and what is called the dispersive action of the prism will separate the rays in the order of their wave lengths, the longer waves being less refracted than the shorter ones; but the energy of any one of these will depend upon the _amplitude of undulation_, which in turn will depend upon the amplitude of vibration of the part of the molecule that originated it, but in general the longer waves have greater amplitude, though not necessarily so.
Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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In most cases, nothing abnormal is noticed immediately except the dazzling sensation; it is only after that a cloud floats with irregular undulations before the eyes, associated with irritating after-images, photophobia, photopsia and chromatopsia.
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Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer.
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While burrowing, caecilians employ concertina locomotion, lateral undulation, and vermiform locomotion.
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In the first phase, the undulations were marked by a dominant direction, but, towards the close of the second phase, there was no determinate direction, and the impression was again that of a vorticose shock.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The crest of the undulation on the inside of the wall coincides with the trough of the Gaussian vault.
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There are two motions of the waves -- one up and down, which we call undulation, the other to and fro, which we call fluctuation.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
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This paper probes emphatically into the accuracy uncertainty of LSMM from atmospheric condition and terrain undulation by taking unmixing vegetation abundance based on LSMM as an example.
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The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule.
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The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
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Her waist, tight-cinctured, was -- which is the highest praise -- not ultra-fashionable, and the undulations of her gauzy drapery disclosed, as she receded, enough of ankle and crural adjacency to furnish hints of improvement to most classical sculptors.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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A certain spirited undulation in her walk, a seeming gay, frank indifference to her position in life, an obvious accustomedness to polite surroundings took his fancy.
The Titan
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As she bourrées on pointe, her jointless yet oddly articulate upper limbs delicately caress the air, forming looping undulations and crisscrossing patterns.
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That and the unrelenting heat and undulations made for a tough cycle leg, which he completed at his pre-race estimated time.
