Oscillate is an English word with synonyms like vibrate or hover. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Oscillate meaning
- To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
- To vary above and below a mean value.
Using Oscillate
- The main meaning on this page is: To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm. | To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc. | To vary above and below a mean value.
- Useful related words include: vibrate, hover, vacillate, hesitate.
- In the example corpus, oscillate often appears in combinations such as: to oscillate, oscillate between, oscillate at.
Context around Oscillate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oscillate
- In this selection, "oscillate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, markets, resonators, flock, inside, understanding and depending stand out and add context to how "oscillate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and acquisitions oscillate with periods and as markets oscillate understanding sectoral. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oscillate" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oscillate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Our job is to oscillate between the two. (8 words)
As markets oscillate, understanding sectoral dynamics becomes crucial for informed investment strategies. (12 words)
His moods oscillate along with the news cycle and the time of day. (13 words)
The absurdity peaks as Michael's character, Agent Michael Scarn, performs outlandish stunts and delivers cringeworthy one-liners that are so bad they're causing both the on-screen and real-life audience to oscillate between disbelief and laughter. (39 words)
As they listened in to his calls, officers heard Correa oscillate between the confidence of a man accustomed to buying his way out of trouble and paranoia, as he grew increasingly suspicious that someone had snitched on him. (38 words)
As a result, they are likely to cause the climate to oscillate between cooling and warming, but with an overall trend towards warming as the carbon dioxide they emit can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
If we had to believe the bookmakers, it would be very interesting if they would end up among the ten eligible countries: we now always oscillate between tenth or eleventh place.
Robinson said he "definitely" felt like his team was taking one step forward and two steps back this season as they oscillate between good wins and poor losses.
Until then both the dollar index and the Treasury yield can oscillate inside their range.
As markets oscillate, understanding sectoral dynamics becomes crucial for informed investment strategies.
At these tiny sizes, resonators oscillate at much higher frequencies and exhibit a greater sensitivity compared to their macroscopic counterparts.
For the last 10 years we have seen the national flock oscillate between 64 and 74 million head.
In the lens of technical analysis, price actions of highly liquid tradable financial instruments do not move in a vertical fashion but oscillate within longer-term trend phases.
It's one of the best-looking tower fans I tested — but it doesn't oscillate like a traditional tower fan, relying instead on that twisty design to move a wider field of air throughout the room.
Our job is to oscillate between the two.
The absurdity peaks as Michael's character, Agent Michael Scarn, performs outlandish stunts and delivers cringeworthy one-liners that are so bad they're causing both the on-screen and real-life audience to oscillate between disbelief and laughter.
The wrapping marks, cut into the clay like a memory made concrete, oscillate between signs of painful bondage and a warm embrace, a tension both social and artistic in 1970s Korean culture.
As they listened in to his calls, officers heard Correa oscillate between the confidence of a man accustomed to buying his way out of trouble and paranoia, as he grew increasingly suspicious that someone had snitched on him.
After a brief respite, Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to oscillate between ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’ categories on Friday due to increased pollutant holding capacity of air and stubble burning in neighbouring states.
As long as the border remains insufficiently secured and the border wall continues to be elusive, these numbers will oscillate depending on the political and economic atmosphere.
His moods oscillate along with the news cycle and the time of day.
Old but effective antibiotics oscillate through as manufacturers drop out and create monopoly pricing opportunities.
About 65 billion (main) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the Sun in the region of the Earth. citation Neutrinos oscillate between different flavors in flight.
According to this theory, periods of mergers and acquisitions oscillate with periods of stagflation.
Along the line, the above expression for is seen to oscillate sinusoidally between and with a period of 2π/2k.
As a result, they are likely to cause the climate to oscillate between cooling and warming, but with an overall trend towards warming as the carbon dioxide they emit can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.
Common combinations with oscillate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to oscillate 23×
- oscillate between 13×
- oscillate at 5×
- oscillate in 5×
- will oscillate 3×
- neutrinos oscillate 3×
- oscillate with 3×
- oscillate their 3×
- that oscillate 3×
- can oscillate 2×