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Undulations in sentence

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Interference patterns are the complicated undulations that happen when two wave patterns occupy the same space.
This long aquatic vehicle could barely feel the broad undulations of the ocean.
Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons swaying to the faint undulations caused by our walking.
But just then, lifted off by the tide's final undulations, the Nautilus left its coral bed at exactly that fortieth minute pinpointed by the captain.
The sea's undulations, which had been creating a gentle rocking motion, now ceased.
I fancied I saw these cylindrical, membrane-filled tubes trembling beneath the water's undulations.
The ship's beacon lit up that whole placid surface, which experienced neither ripples nor undulations.
Just long, soot-colored undulations with crests so compact they didn't foam.
Beneath the undulations of the billows, the windows were enlivened by the blushing of the rising sun.
The whitish light of the window-panes fell with soft undulations.
The surface of the water which had so lately been lashing the shores with boisterous fury, was already losing its ruffled darkness in the long and regular undulations that succeeded a tempest, while the light air from the southwest was gently touching their summits, lending its feeble aid in stilling the waters.
George Villiers placed himself before the glass, as we have said, restored the undulations to his beautiful hair, which the weight of his hat had disordered, twisted his mustache, and, his heart swelling with joy, happy and proud at being near the moment he had so long sighed for, he smiled upon himself with pride and hope.
Then her hair assumed successively, under her skillful hands, all the undulations she thought might assist the charms of her face.
It was like the distant rumble of continuous thunder, and I could hear its sounding undulations rolling far away into the remote recesses of the abyss.
Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet.
No noise was heard, not even that of the water, which the undulations of the surge must sometimes agitate in its depths.
The undulations of the human surge reached the steps, while all the heads floundered on the surface like a sea agitated by a squall.
When it had come quite near the Pearl, father Roland lifted his hat,the ladies shook their handkerchiefs, and half a dozen parasols eagerlywaved on board the steamboat responded to this salute as she went on herway, leaving behind her a few broad undulations on the still and glassysurface of the sea.
The dusty high road layacross the plain of Normandy, which, by its gentle undulations, dottedwith farms embowered in trees, wears the aspect of an endless park.
There were also fine edifices which pierced the petrified undulations of that sea of gables.
Here the first undulations of the sea were felt, and the steamer ranged along the picturesque coast of the Isle of Arran.