Sample Sentences for
vacillate
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    She vacillated between excitement and fear as the competition approached.
    vacillated = moved back and forth
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    The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.  (source)
    vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    And so long as we vacillate, so long will we pay dearly for the dubious pleasure of not having to make up our minds.  (source)
    vacillate = to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    I began a process of vacillating between music and writing that would take eight years to complete before I realized I could work successfully as a writer and musician.  (source)
    vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    ...and there was so much vacillation as to whether their loyalties lay here or over there that they ended up mired in a...  (source)
    vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She'd decided on it, rejected it, and generally vacillated until she'd disgusted herself.  (source)
    vacillated = changed her mind back and forth
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    He would vacillate between self-absorption and depression.†  (source)
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    But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.†  (source)
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    He vacillates, halfheartedly initiates, and then draws back and regroups.  (source)
    vacillates = changes his mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    And he was distressed that in a situation where a real man would instantly have known how to act, he was vacillating  (source)
    vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    The vacillation between the various plans that were proposed had even increased after the Emperor had been at headquarters for a month.  (source)
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    the dollar had fallen, gold risen; strikes had crippled, and governments had vacillated between action and paralysis.  (source)
    vacillated = swayed back and forth
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    Lines and colours almost persuade me that I too can be heroic, I, who make phrases so easily, am so soon seduced, love what comes next, and cannot clench my fist, but vacillate weakly making phrases according to my circumstances.†  (source)
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