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undulation - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- land: The undulations of the land resembled in some places the waves of the sea.
- fin: Propulsion is by undulations of the small dorsal fin.
- melody: True - the undulations of the melody ( a " holy noise " ?
Converse of object
- have: Tracks which have undulations or are uphill suit his style.
- cause: The barge docked with a rusty clanging noise that caused an undulation in the tarpaulin covering the deck.
- remove: The hats brims are then ironed to even out the weave and remove any small undulations in the straw.
- contain: The round course contains significant undulations and there is quite a change in gradient up the straight.
Preposition: in
- surface: Earthworks:- undulations in the ground surface mark the location of the earlier church.
- ground: Deep hollows and undulations in the ground will often leave ordinary rollers hanging in mid air, achieving nothing.
- landscape: Some of these barrows are difficult to see as many of them are just undulations in the landscape.
- road: Driving was hard work with a constant need to correct the direction as it was disturbed by almost every undulation in the road.
Adjective modifier
- gentle: The gentle undulations of Capability Brown's landscape lie beyond.
- minor: Yes, we're talking at least minor undulations here.
- small: Changes in topography tend to be only small undulations.
- natural: This complements the natural undulations of the stone, in a way, producing a controlled form of man-made erosion.
- few: It is a 10 mile course with a few undulations.
- slight: This fills all the holes and slight undulations and gives a pleasing finish to the render.
Noun used with modifier
- surface: The probe is optimized for amplitude and bandwidth, in order to present small scale surface undulations of a high spatial frequency to users.
- body: Try to make your breast feel like your fly by using body undulation as in ( 12 ).
- frequency: Small imperfections disappear, and even higher frequency undulations seem not to disturb it at all.
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