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A sidewinding snake uses less energy to cover the same distance as a laterally undulating snake uses.undulating = moving with smooth wave-like movements
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From time to time she would open her mouth wide, and I could see her tongue undulate faintly. (source)undulate = move in a wave-like motion
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The interference undulates and rises. (source)undulates = makes a smooth wave-like motion (physical or auditory)
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His arm, a long molasses undulation, (source)undulation = a smooth wave-like motion; or having a wavy or rippled form
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(NICK and MARTHA move apart now and dance on either side of where GEORGE and HONEY are sitting; they face each other, and while their feet move but little, their bodies undulate congruently. . . . . It is as if they were pressed together) (source)undulate = move in a smooth wave-like motion
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Above, the surface of the water was an undulating mirror of brightness, (source)undulating = rippling
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John was asleep and I hated to waken him, so I kept still and watched the moonlight on that undulating wall-paper till I felt creepy. (source)undulating = wavy or rippled
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There were gentle undulations where the stone had once been fluted.† (source)undulations = smooth wave-like motions
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The streets undulated under a blanket of frogs.† (source)
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If you had watched your patient carefully you would have seen this undulation in every department of his life—his interest in his work, his affection for his friends, his physical appetites, all go up and down. (source)undulation = wave-like movementstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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As he walks toward the door, the flagstone path seems to undulate beneath his feet like a fun-house floor.† (source)
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The hill surface, as if responding to a command from Uncle's outstretched hand, undulates suddenly in a breeze, with ripple after ripple of grass shadows, rhythmical as ocean waves.† (source)
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She trilled along, and trilled along, and presently a handsome young page, clothed like the rainbow, and as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something on a golden salver, and, kneeling to present it to her, overdid his graces and lost his balance, and so fell lightly against her knee.† (source)
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For hours, Esperanza watched the undulating land pass in front of her.† (source)
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There was not much vegetation, mostly low, flat bushes, but the rough rocks-boulders-and-shale terrain was full of undulations, valleys, and gullies.† (source)undulations = smooth wave-like motions
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The darkness to the east undulated and flickered in the rays of the rising sun.† (source)
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