irresolute

How To Use irresolute In A Sentence

• But as he stood, irresolute, in the hall, the office door opened and the second detective came out. A DEATH IN TIME
• The play calls for Elizabeth to gradually learn the rules, reaching the same irresolute state as the adults who surround her.
• To be irresolute when a prompt decision should be taken would only spell disaster.
• Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
• Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
• This cult of irresoluteness, this satisfaction with pointing out the difficulties, this inability to make up one's mind and carry it out, recalls to me a jest in Punch about how the sculptors have carved many a hero seated on a horse but up-to-date have never carved a hero seated on a fence. Palestine As A U.N. Responsibility
• The worst reason to launch an attack would be a fear of seeming irresolute.
• He probably expected me to spring from the ground with the activity which these Borderers have, by constant practice, acquired in everything relating to horsemanship; but as I stood irresolute, he extended his hand, and grasping mine, bid me place my foot on the toe of his boot, and thus raised me in a trice to the croupe of his horse. Redgauntlet
• But this year, for some reason, I was very irresolute about it.
• His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.