How to Use undulation in a Sentence

undulation

noun
  • These have a few more undulations and a few more blind shots.
    Doug Ferguson, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2019
  • And many greens are crowned or at least have amazing undulation, and run true.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 8 May 2022
  • The curve of the horizon is caused by undulations in the flat Earth.
    Craig A. Foster, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The greens are going to be running lightning quick and have a lot of undulation and wave to them.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
  • Braces hold together the grin of a young girl on a saddle, her dress a mint-green undulation.
    The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
  • Successive 3-foot undulations moved through the earth’s crust at nine times the speed of sound.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Predictably, most of the greens are massive, with some heavy undulation that is a bit overdone at times.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail—or flagella—make striped patterns in space-time.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And through such undulation, the Jazz have powered on, powered through.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The bristles’ lengths are staggered, and the funky undulations look cool but miss some hairs—use the tip of the wand to pull limp lashes up.
    Allure Editors, Allure, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The ride is firm, yet the suspension yields to all but the sharpest impacts, and body control is good even over undulations.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2020
  • That’s part of the beauty of the course with natural undulations and multiple ways to get around it.
    Drew Davison, star-telegram, 16 May 2018
  • The wiry undulations of the Slinky toy, for example, turn out to be good way of modeling sine waves.
    Paul Grimstad, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
  • And these waves, the undulations on the surface of this water, propagate through the water.
    Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2026
  • And then there are all the private undulations within that chapter in history.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Kickapoo was marked by a slight undulation in the topography.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
  • Especially with this one, because of all the tonal undulations.
    Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The green is elevated and features plenty of undulation, making this a true test from start to finish.
    Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 29 June 2018
  • The hole slopes pretty severely from right to left and boasts waves of undulations between within the fairway itself.
    Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
  • The shock absorber and spring manage weight and smaller cracks in the road, but larger undulations do result in some rafting effects.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
  • The two became one big black hole that rang out in far-reaching undulations of spacetime called gravitational waves.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Compared to most courses in the Open rotation, Portrush has far more undulations.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Tsunami scientists call the buoy reading an anomaly that reflected the seafloor undulations from the quake.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The rover has measured a few more methane spikes, but the new wrinkle is the undulations in the low background levels — higher in summer than winter.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • The hole then bends to the left and continues slightly downhill to one of the toughest greens on the course, featuring a false front and plenty of undulation.
    Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 20 June 2018
  • And the sleek vertical lines are a counterpart to the horizontal undulations of the soon-to-open transit center next door.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
  • But in the fluctuating undulations of awards season, a good speech at the Globes can boost an Oscar campaign.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Each decanter is different, with slight undulations and curves on the surface that celebrates the artisan process required to make them.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Siwa, 16, has spaghetti blond hair and a voice like a wooden roller-coaster track–fun but rough, with unexpected undulations.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But in the fluctuating undulations of awards season, a good speech at the Globes can really boost an Oscar campaign.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026

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