pendulate

Example Sentences

• "There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb ."
• "Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again ."
• "Lungarella and Metta (in Lungarella, M. and Metta, G. 2003) studies the role of changes in the qcquisition of primary motor abilities: learning to pendulate (to swing like a pendulum) or bounce. In the first case the study was conducted with a small-sized humanoid robot that learned to pendulate."
• "What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction."
• "If it stops feeling okay, pendulate to thinking about (or doing) something that feels nurturing for you: it it's available to you, get up and move around, look at a favorite picture or painting, talk to a friend, or pet your dog or cat."
• "When we can pendulate between between those vagal states, shift between frozen to connected to withdrawing to integrated, this is the ANS capacity at its best, "mov[ing] between sympathetic and parasympathetic modes in an optimal balance"."