Undulating Meaning
/ˈʌndʒəˌleɪtɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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adjMoving up and down like waves; wavy.
"From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached."— 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
adjForming a series of regular curves.
"Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean."— 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
verbpresent participle and gerund of undulate
nounundulation
"In good poetry every word and phrase, as Professor McKail says, reverberates like the sound of a lyre, and leaves after it numberless undulatings. The verse exhales sweet sound, and light-like thought, as perfumes do; but we cannot explain just why."— 1930, John Thomas Ingram Bryan, The Philosophy of English Literature, page 27:
Sentence Examples
The ocean swells like an undulating mirror of the bowl of heaven.
Now the slaves began to dance graceful undulating dances to enchanting music.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The beautiful ____ hills stretched across the distant horizon like ocean waves.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The path followed the ____ hills of the countryside, providing many beautiful views of the entire valley today.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The beautiful ____ hills stretched across the distant horizon like ocean waves.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The path followed the ____ hills of the countryside, providing many beautiful views of the entire valley today.