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How to use pendulum in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Pendulum means a body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks. Example: “A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.”

Examples of pendulum by meaning

nounThe tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).

  • The pendulum can be seen to be swinging in favour of rail, as with each issue of RAIL comes news of further intermodal service expansion.2021 October 20, Industry Insider, “The wheels turn slowly”, in RAIL, number 942, page 68

More sentences with pendulum

  • A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.From the entry oscillate
  • Above them, another razor-bladed pendulum detached from its hooks, swinging down in a wide arc.2022, C. L.. Herman, Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise: The epic conclusion to All of Us Villains. From the entry razor-bladed
  • Very recently newsmagazines tell us that "the pendulum is swinging back."1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 407. From the entry news magazine
  • The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks.1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Penguin, published 2008, page 97. From the entry penes
  • Although Galileo had designed a pendulum clock, he never actually constructed one.1961, Henry Semat, Fundamentals of PHYSICS, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 161. From the entry mathematical
  • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann. From the entry tock
  • He also developed the mathematical theory of the pendulum.1961, Henry Semat, Fundamentals of PHYSICS, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 161. From the entry mathematical
  • He leaned forward pressing the tightened muscles below his ribs and then began to rock back and forth, like a pendulum.1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 34, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry assuagement
  • A coconut shy stood close by and swing boats swung like giant pendulums against a background of blossoming shrubs blazing with colour.2015, James R. Curwood, Lucy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 238. From the entry coconut shy
  • He claims that the pendulums can have a hypnotic effect on the sun god and cause him to sink into a long slumber.2014, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, Tor Books, →ISBN. From the entry sun god
  • I give it a flick, so the daisy charm swings back and forth like a pendulum, dead center in the middle of his windshield.2013, Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian, Fire with Fire. From the entry dead center
  • There is no pendulum of change to swing us back to the ‘good old days’ – the direction of these shifts will continue.2009/2011, Mark McCrindle, Emily Wolfinger, “[Motivating and communicating] Training and communicating”, in The ABC of XYZ: Understanding…. From the entry Generation Zed
  • The roll, pitch and yaw gyradii (k₄₄, k₅₅ and k₆₆) were determined using the pendulum method by swinging the model in the air.1999, J. de Kat, W. Thomas III, “Extreme Broaching, Rolling and Capsizing-Model Tests and Simulations of a Steered Ship in Waves”, in…. From the entry gyradius
  • Interestingly enough, John Mullins, the celebrated English dowser, was able to do this experiment using a forked twig, rather than a pendulum.1996, Richard Webster, Dowsing for Beginners: The Art of Discovering Water, Treasure, Gold, Oil, Artifacts, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN. From the entry dowser
  • It is quite inconceivable that any handwaver could ever have dreamt up the use of a pendulum to measure dissolved carbon concentrations!1995, Institute of Physics, editors, Twentieth Century Physics, 2nd edition, volume 3, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1523. From the entry handwaver
  • The imminent creation of Great British Railways (GBR) shows that the pendulum is swinging back to a government-managed network, bringing fears of political interference and concerns about long-term investment.2025 October 15, Howard Johnston, “Public versus private: is there any difference?”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 62. From the entry swing back
  • After examining it, he touches and stops the pendulum, takes away its key, poles the stick into the box and secrets it away as if it were a prize.1978, John F. Desmond, Still moment: essays on the art of Eudora Welty, Scarecrow Press, p. 90. From the entry secrets
  • The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page. From the entry marginal

Meaning of pendulum

  1. noun A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
  2. noun The tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).
  3. noun A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.

Full definition of pendulum

Questions about pendulum in a sentence

How do you use pendulum in a sentence?
Pendulum is used as a noun. For example: “A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.”
What is a short sentence with pendulum?
“A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.”
What does pendulum mean?
Pendulum means a body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

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