oscillate
verb (used without object)
to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
is oscillating
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present progressiveof oscillate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Tim Chang, the venture capitalist who keeps his bags packed, told me, “My current state of mind is oscillating between optimism and sheer terror.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
A lead weight on a spring is oscillating up and down.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Find the rate at which the spring is oscillating at t = 5 s.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
She stays around the tonic, reinforces the tonic, and the vocal melody establishes the key so clearly that there is no doubt: Katy’s voice is “home”; the rest of the song is oscillating around her.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014
The cylinder is oscillating, and the distribution is effected, without an eccentric, by the relative motion of two spherical surfaces fitted one against the other, and having the axis of oscillation for a common axis.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
