How to Use oscillate in a Sentence

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• If the speed is low enough, the pendulum will oscillate back and forth.
  — Leila Sloman, WIRED, 5 May 2024
• If the speed is low enough, the pendulum will oscillate back and forth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
• The teams engaged at a breakneck pace the rest of the way as the Panthers oscillated between the trap and man-to-man press the length of the floor.
  — Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• While the inner bead sits there, the outer beads oscillate in and out, slightly out of sync.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
• Red begonias, on the other hand, can flourish in plots that oscillate from sun to shade over the course of the day.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
• Their heated conversations ebb and flow, oscillating from the state of the world to the state of their lives.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• The beams, roughly the size of a bacterium, could oscillate up and down like a plucked guitar string.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• Indeed, the chain can be made to oscillate at a rate that depends on how often it is zapped.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• Trump’s view of Comey has oscillated wildly over the past year.
  — Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker, 7 June 2017
• At that scale the electric field that speeds the electrons along comes from the light’s oscillating electric field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2023
• The mass on the spring can oscillate on its own with a natural frequency that depends on the mass of the object and the stiffness of the spring.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 21 Feb. 2020
• This laser excites the atoms to oscillate, or move back and forth hundreds of trillions of times per second.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• This can help keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter; these fans work regardless of an oscillating mode.
  — Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
• Flu rates tend to oscillate, Pavia said, with a mild year often followed by a severe one.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• The broad black stripes of the wall mural oscillate too, between pattern and figure, flatness and depth.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The brush head gently oscillates in a way that feels almost like a vibration.
  — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• This incessant pull back toward the center is what causes the swing to oscillate back and forth.
  — Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 7 Apr. 2023
• The brand fills a distinct gap, oscillating between old and new, edgy and refined.
  — Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
• This appears to be part of a ~70 year cycle for the rotation of the inner core -- in a sense, the core is oscillating rather than spinning.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
• These days the emotional timbre of the Steyer house oscillates between the dire and the gleeful: The world is a wreck, but we are so pumped up about saving it!
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
• The filmmaker has emerged as one of the most sought-after in town with his ability to oscillate tones, scope and budgets.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2020
• Prices oscillated between 20 cents on the dollar to as high as 70 cents when the deal was finalized.
  — Tasos Vossos, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2023
• While the real world continued to oscillate between open and closed, video games remained a constant for some of us here at The Times.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
• There’s bitcoin, the first and most well known of all the currencies, which currently oscillates in value at around $5,000 a coin.
  — Nick Bilton, vanityfair.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The front springs oscillate at a much higher frequency than the rear ones, giving the sort of ride one gets in a small boat hitting choppy waves head-on.
  — Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2020
• For a variety of reasons, an electron that is nearby will move to the brightest part of the spot and start oscillating back and forth along the axis of the two cones.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
• Physicists have known that for over a decade, but the new research shows for the first time that charm mesons can actually oscillate back and forth between the two states.
  — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• Second baseman Luis Arraez came up to the Twins in 2019 and will now oscillate through his main position, third base and even left field.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
• With a drill, sander, jig saw, oscillating tool, router, and impact driver attachments, the tool kit is a good one-stop shop.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2017
• But just as vibrating plates shake users up and down in quick succession, trends too are always oscillating.
  — Mustafa Fattah, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024