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Sentences with oscillate

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  • I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating. [VERB]
  • The share price has oscillated between a five-year high of 157.25p in 1997 and this year's low of 91.5p. [V between pl-amount]
  • The cardboard characters oscillate between two facial expressions — bored and bemused — and spout dialogue so hammy.
  • They oscillate between being abstract shapes on a canvas and being installed in the space of a picture.
  • The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism. [V + between/and]
  • He oscillates regularly between elation and despair.
  • Most of us oscillate between extravagant praise for teachers or contempt.
  • As a bull market progresses, investors oscillate between euphoria over the vast amounts of money to be made.
  • The sequence 0, 1, 0, 1, … oscillates.
  • Nor does it help that Sullivan's melodies oscillate between round-the-piano set- pieces.
  • Palmer and his brother-in-law, director Sean Cousins, have watched it oscillate from numerous angles for several decades.
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