Sample sentences for VACILLATE

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Definition

to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

or:

to sway back and forth

She was determined and did not vacillate in the least.

vacillate = to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

the line on the monitor vacillated
I know of nothing to make me vacillate.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
...she vacillated between the certainty that he still loved her and the hopelessness of their situation.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

vacillated = changed her mind back and forth

Two people were involved-the real murderer, cunning, resourceful and calculating-and the pseudo murderer, stupid, vacillating and suggestible.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders

vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

or:

swaying back and forth

asked the landlord, vacillating weakly.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

vacillating = changing his mind (or doubting his earlier opinion)

And back home, the media were vacillating between dead and missing, whichever made the best story on the day, I guess.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

She'd decided on it, rejected it, and generally vacillated until she'd disgusted herself.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

vacillated = changed her mind back and forth

He vacillates, halfheartedly initiates, and then draws back and regroups.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

vacillates = changes his mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

...and there was so much vacillation as to whether their loyalties lay here or over there that they ended up mired in a...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth

(editor's note: 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.)

The vacillation between the various plans that were proposed had even increased after the Emperor had been at headquarters for a month.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

I have definitely vacillated about scoring again.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

vacillated = changed one's mind back and forth

Moody vacillated sometimes asserting his physical dominance, but at other' times attempting to win me over with kindness.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

vacillated = switched back and forth

I find it difficult to look at him, vacillating as I do from feeling the deepest empathy for his mortification to being barely able not to laugh.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

vacillating = changing back and forth

the dollar had fallen, gold risen; strikes had crippled, and governments had vacillated between action and paralysis.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

vacillated = swayed back and forth

And so long as we vacillate, so long will we pay dearly for the dubious pleasure of not having to make up our minds.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country

vacillate = to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

I do not think that even I could produce any effect on a character that according to his own brother's admission is irretrievably weak and vacillating.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas

I had been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

vacillating = changing my mind back and forth

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