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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    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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    The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.  (source)
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    I had been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker.  (source)
    vacillating = changing my mind back and forth
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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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    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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    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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    As soon as Major Danby began to cry, Colonel Moodus, who had been vacillating wretchedly on the sidelines, could restrain himself no longer and stepped out diffidently toward General Dreedle with a sickly air of self-sacrifice.  (source)
    vacillating = changing his 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)
    vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    Moody vacillated sometimes asserting his physical dominance, but at other' times attempting to win me over with kindness.  (source)
    vacillated = switched back and forth
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    He would vacillate between self-absorption and depression.†  (source)
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