PENDULUM in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for PENDULUM, such as:
1. This was the last oscillation of the pendulum.
2. His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum.
3. Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.
4. On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs.
5. After several years of Republican government, the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back and voters will elect a Democrat.
2. His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum.
3. Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.
4. On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs.
5. After several years of Republican government, the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back and voters will elect a Democrat.
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Meanings and Examples of PENDULUM
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pendulum
n. an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity
Classic Sentence:
1 His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum.
2 One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing altogether.
3 This was the last oscillation of the pendulum.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL
4 It's not to be denied that one of 'em has left her sphere, has shot, has eloped, to put it plainly, with the entrails of a time-piece, the mere pendulum of a grandfather's clock.'
5 He's gone; she's gone; and the old clock that the rascal made himself into a pendulum for is the only one of 'em all to stop.'
6 That done, the pendulum returned to its right-left, right-left oscillation.
7 On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs.
8 The pendulum of the great clock went to and fro, and the hands turned, and everything in the room became still older; but they did not observe it.
9 All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting.
10 Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.
Example Sentence:
1 There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it.
2 After several years of Republican government, the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back and voters will elect a Democrat.