How to Use oscillate in a Sentence

oscillate

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• The brush head gently oscillates in a way that feels almost like a vibration.
  — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• The broad black stripes of the wall mural oscillate too, between pattern and figure, flatness and depth.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• This option has three speeds, an oscillating base, and a bladeless design for added safety.
  — Rachel Trujillo, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• Use its oscillating feature to circulate airflow to more areas throughout the room.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
• They can then be broken down into sub-types, like rotating, oscillating, and pulsating.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2024
• That seemed to be a fitting image for the rest of the trip, which oscillated between breathtaking beauty and heartbreaking anguish.
  — Tim Neville, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Shares have been volatile in regular trading Wednesday, oscillating between modest gains and losses.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
• He's oscillated between threats and insults directed at Kim that have fueled fears of war, and more conciliatory rhetoric.
  — Foster Klug, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• The scheme depends on the fact that light can be polarized, so that the electromagnetic waves oscillate either in a horizontal or a vertical plane.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• Rather than subtly braiding drama and comedy together, as real life often does, the movie oscillates jerkily between the two modes, as though hesitant to commit to either one.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024