How to Use vacillate in a Sentence

vacillate

verb
Definition of vacillatenext
Synonyms for vacillatenext
  • She has vacillated on this issue.
  • But Putin seemed to vacillate on his own support for Prigozhin.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • But Aguilera arrived hours late to court, and began to cry while vacillating over the deal.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The lake of my childhood had always vacillated somewhere between a slate blue and the gray found in the seams of an old tennis ball.
    — Robert Moor, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • The process, at times, has left him vacillating from tears of self-pity to intense anger and severe depression.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The viewer sees the world through Luli's eyes, vacillating between who could be her savior and who's the real villain.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2012
  • With this record, has the idea of expectation changed for you at all in terms of reception or the idea of vacillating between styles or sounds?
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2017
  • All around, neighbors are vacillating on whether to rebuild or move away.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Then there will be players who vacillate about the vaccine, guys like Tampa Bay’s Leonard Fournette.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
  • Biden’s team has, for months, vacillated between the best message for the candidate.
    — Time, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The home quietly vacillates between high-glam and lived-in—a space distinctly her own, designed on her own terms.
    — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 26 July 2019
  • The caffeine breakdowns can vacillate for other forms of coffee, too.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Some dedicate half or whole days to each of their primary processes, but the key is to not vacillate back-and-forth between them.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The White House has vacillated in recent days about whether the two countries were holding preparatory talks in advance of the summit.
    — Peter Nicholas, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • Throughout the night, the tone vacillated from celebratory to somber as the celebrities came to terms with their platform.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
  • Trump has vacillated over his objectives for the meeting with Kim.
    — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
  • Whatever the motivation, it's been a long time coming for a team that has been content to spend the first 10 weeks of the season vacillating between kind of good and kind of bad.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 17 June 2017
  • But after spending the first six weeks of the season vacillating between good and not so good, the Indians could use a little sizzle.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 20 May 2017
  • Berry spends the entirety of the film vacillating between hysterics and hugs.
    — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Berry spends the whole film vacillating between hysterics and hugs.
    — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Gale-force winds and vacillating currents drove the Hōkūleʻa into its escort boat, leaving a gaping hole in the vessel’s starboard.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Gale-force winds and vacillating currents drove the Hōkūleʻa into its escort boat, leaving a gaping hole in the vessel’s starboard.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • But on Thursday, House Republicans vacillated on whether a third House speaker vote would be to their taste.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But Fukuyama vacillates throughout on how great a threat aspiring Supermen in the Nietzschean mold might pose to the peace at the end of history.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Trump vacillated for months on whether to pick Shanahan, officials said.
    — NBC News, 11 June 2019
  • Sfiha, ground meat blended with pomegranate molasses and a pantry-ful of spices, vacillates brightly between sweet and sour.
    — Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
  • In pieces like p1eta™️, Chapin tries to reconcile the polarity that women vacillate between — Eve as wicked and full of knowledge, the Virgin Mary as pure and worthy.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Over the years, Philippine presidents have vacillated between reviving the claim to letting sleeping dogs lie so as to smooth ties with Malaysia.
    — Andreo Calonzo, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Markle has been vacillating between straight and wavy hair for her last few appearances, but her preference for a low and loose chignon has remained constant.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Antiwar critics of Trump’s Jacksonian rhetoric turned on a dime to blast him as a weak, vacillating leader afraid to call Iran to account.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019

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