How to Use oscillation in a Sentence

oscillation

noun

• There has been oscillation between optimism and pessimism among voters.
• These oscillations might have slashed the numbers of squid that the sperm whales eat.
  — National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2016
• These oscillations might have slashed the numbers of squid that the sperm whales eat.
  — National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2016
• But each time the device is powered up, the phase of the oscillation can take on one of two states.
  — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2023
• The phase describes where in an oscillation the swing is.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
• The oscillation is rarely this intense, and its hold rarely lasts this long.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• The phase of this oscillation tells us about the overlap between the two pulses.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
• The length of the oscillation from the eastern limit to the western limit is four and a half inches.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• But even in that rhythm, in that oscillation of the economy, things change.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• The higher the rate of oscillation, the more complex those figures will be.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2022
• The storm’s the large wind field means that oscillations east or west will affect the storm’s severity on land.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• Whether the oscillation shifts to neutral this summer or to a La Niña remains to be seen.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• What is the odd oscillation that sets these crystals apart?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• With these alpha waves suppressed, Neely says, the slower oscillations, like the theta waves of light sleep, take over.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
• On fan mode, the device cools a room down with its 350-degree oscillation.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• The oscillations indicate the size of space at every distance away from Earth — and thus at any point back in time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2013
• Give your great flings a space in your future oscillations.
  — Maggie Lange, The Cut, 25 Sep. 2017
• Barry tested the model in a bathtub and would count the number of oscillations and time how long the model rocked.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 3 Apr. 2018
• The space heater has two settings — high heat and low heat — an adjustable timer, and a wide oscillation that helps to further push hot air into the room.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2024
• Either way, Hu thinks the oscillations could be responsible for at most one-third of the wind speedup.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 5 Feb. 2020
• In many species, this oscillation occurs in a 20-or-so-year cycle.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
• His playing centers on heavy oscillations between the strong and weak beats, and never lets up on a groove.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• The fan makes cooling down your home a breeze, with 90-degree wide-angle oscillation that provides cool air to both large and small rooms.
  — Monica Bell, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• But not much has created quite as much stir and oscillation between good and bad as the humble egg.
  — Matthew Kadey Rd, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
• The clothes are washed by the oscillation of a rocking chair, the rocking being effected by the hands of the operator, which grasp a hand bar, as shown.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
• To start, the researchers compared the waves to the sound oscillations produced by a musician standing in a music hall.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
• Think of it this way: light is an optical oscillation made up of photons.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
• Thanks to its 90-degree oscillation, the fan covers plenty of ground.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• Scientists can measure the distances between densities of oscillations in the CMB, then trace the growth of those distances over space and time as those densities gather into clusters of galaxies.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• The oscillation between these two perspectives has produced the recurring whiplash in U.S. foreign policy over the past century.
  — Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024