How to Use undulation in a Sentence
undulation
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The curve of the horizon is caused by undulations in the flat Earth.
—Craig A. Foster, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
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These have a few more undulations and a few more blind shots.
—Doug Ferguson, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2019
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The greens are going to be running lightning quick and have a lot of undulation and wave to them.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
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The bristles’ lengths are staggered, and the funky undulations look cool but miss some hairs—use the tip of the wand to pull limp lashes up.
—Allure Editors, Allure, 18 Dec. 2017
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Successive 3-foot undulations moved through the earth’s crust at nine times the speed of sound.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
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And many greens are crowned or at least have amazing undulation, and run true.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes, 8 May 2022
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The ride is firm, yet the suspension yields to all but the sharpest impacts, and body control is good even over undulations.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2020
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Braces hold together the grin of a young girl on a saddle, her dress a mint-green undulation.
—The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
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The wiry undulations of the Slinky toy, for example, turn out to be good way of modeling sine waves.
—Paul Grimstad, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
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Predictably, most of the greens are massive, with some heavy undulation that is a bit overdone at times.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
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That’s part of the beauty of the course with natural undulations and multiple ways to get around it.
—Drew Davison, star-telegram, 16 May 2018
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The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail—or flagella—make striped patterns in space-time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
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And through such undulation, the Jazz have powered on, powered through.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
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The hole then bends to the left and continues slightly downhill to one of the toughest greens on the course, featuring a false front and plenty of undulation.
—Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 20 June 2018
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The team had a basic understanding of undulation thanks to the work of study author Jake Socha, who has been studying the snakes for around 20 years, said Yeaton.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 30 June 2020
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A painting of the port in Marly, flooded after the Seine burst its banks, unifies sky, water and a cafe into an allover undulation of pigment.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017
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No kipukas out here: just mile upon mile of the black undulations formerly known as magma.
—Elyse Butler, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
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No kipukas out here: just mile upon mile of the black undulations formerly known as magma.
—Elyse Butler, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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Lane, who trained in ballet and modern and has used a wheelchair since 1984, is truly embodied here, the swirls of her chair matched by the undulations of her arms and torso.
—Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
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It’s an undulation—something ranging from a wave to a nuance.
—Amit Chaudhuri, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
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The rover has measured a few more methane spikes, but the new wrinkle is the undulations in the low background levels — higher in summer than winter.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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Compared to most courses in the Open rotation, Portrush has far more undulations.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
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And the sleek vertical lines are a counterpart to the horizontal undulations of the soon-to-open transit center next door.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
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The hole slopes pretty severely from right to left and boasts waves of undulations between within the fairway itself.
—Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
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Players that choose to lay up short of the bunkers will still have an option to go for the green with long irons and fairway metals, but the green’s severe undulation on the front right will make hitting the green much more challenging.
—star-telegram, 16 May 2018
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The green is elevated and features plenty of undulation, making this a true test from start to finish.
—Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 29 June 2018
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Tsunami scientists call the buoy reading an anomaly that reflected the seafloor undulations from the quake.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2018
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The trills with which Tchaikovsky sensuously ends some phrases were matched by the rapid pelvic undulations that can be the most singular of belly dancing’s marvels.
—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
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Especially with this one, because of all the tonal undulations.
—Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
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Tens of millions frequently reside along the rain-snow line, which must react to its shifts and its undulations multiple times every winter.
—Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
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