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  • noun Plural form of undulation.

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Examples

  • But in the longer perspective that I have tried to take today, they are manifestations, at different times, of the same thing, namely the undulations in the intensity of business activity that we must expect in this country.

    Some Thoughts on the Threshold of the New Year 1958

  • = In order to show on a map a correct representation of ground, the depressions and elevations, -- that is, the undulations, -- must be represented.

    Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition 1906

  • Westward, the hills followed each other, forming several intermediate and partial valleys, in a kind of undulations, like the waves of the sea, and, bending to the south, completed the boundary of the larger valley before described, to the southward of the hill on which I sat.

    The Dairyman's Daughter Legh Richmond 1799

  • Westward the hills followed each other, forming several intermediate and partial valleys, in a kind of undulations, like the waves of the sea; and, bending to the south, completed the boundary of the larger valley before described, to the southward of the hill on which I sat.

    The Annals of the Poor Legh Richmond 1799

  • Most disturbing to the disciplinarians of the time was the dancing of vaudeville performers—in particular the undulations of female dancers and the “tough dances” in which copulation was simulated.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Where the flow is shallow, and the bed is pebbly, a series of undulations appear in the surface flow; standing waves perhaps?

    Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • I came out riding the first undulations of the gay rights movement and investigating gay life on a black-and-white Mac.

    Adrian Margaret Brune: Guiding Proud: LGBT Youth Program Deals with Stigma Unsolved by Rights Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

  • I came out riding the first undulations of the gay rights movement and investigating gay life on a black-and-white Mac.

    Adrian Margaret Brune: Guiding Proud: LGBT Youth Program Deals with Stigma Unsolved by Rights Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

  • I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost him among the undulations of the sea of ice.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Still, 3D lets you read putts by really showing you the undulations of greens.

    Notah Begay brings unique Tiger Woods perspective to Golf Channel 2010

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