Sample Sentences for
waver
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    We will never waver in our commitment to provide the best education possible.
    waver = falter (stop being strong)
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    It was all I could do not to waver as I stood.  (source)
    waver = shake or quiver
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    The red fern wavered and danced to the music of the hills.  (source)
    wavered = moved back and forth
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    For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond.  (source)
    wavered = shimmered
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    he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through he water without wavering.  (source)
    wavering = moving back and forth
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    the kids waver, run one way, another, in panic, confusion.  (source)
    waver = are unsure and movie back and forth
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    Even during the lengthy cross-examination by Chapman, Myers was unwavering.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwavering means not and reverses the meaning of wavering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His huge figure wavers in the wetness of my tears, as if he is somehow underwater.  (source)
    wavers = moving back and forth
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    They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached — and soon — because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfilment.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwaveringly means not and reverses the meaning of waveringly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "Who is it!" he demanded, leaning out from the bed so that the light fell waveringly on his face.†  (source)
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    Then they rose to fight the duel, and I followed the swift thrusts and parries of the swords and the waverings of poor Bob as his courage oozed out at his finger ends.†  (source)
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    Between these main groups there were waverers and compromisers.†  (source)
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    Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted homesickness clinging to his garments as he could.†  (source)
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