[
US
/ˈvæsəˌɫeɪt/
]
VERB
-
move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
the line on the monitor vacillated -
be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement
How To Use vacillate In A Sentence
- The president vacillates between the two (hard-line and moderate) camps.
- I vacillate between the determination to act, to change things, and the desire to retreat into the snuggeries of self, family and friends.
- My children bring me great joy (especially as the little ones vacillate between squirming with curiosity and tittering with barely kept secrets in anticipation of Christmas).
- He vacillated when he was asked the direct question at an Irish press conference about the Sunderland job and immediately established in some people's minds the belief that he was actively looking for another job.
- Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
- Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
- Mankind, divided and confused, still hesitates, vacillates like a sleepwalker on the edge of an abyss.
- The earthquake caused the entire house to vacillate.
- Ask her for an opinion, and she'll give it to you without any hesitation or attempts to vacillate.
- In his later comments on the Marx Brothers, he vacillated between generosity and steely contempt.
