- present participle of vacillate.
vacillating
Example Sentences
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Vacillating between its safety and performance attributes, Volvo offered a message as mixed as the product line.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Vacillating between wide-screen seas of dancers and intimate portraits of immigrant life, “In the Heights” tells a story both specific and of a community.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2021
Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler thought of dispensing with his talents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Vacillating Attitude of the Authorities 259 2.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.
Vacillating between love for Mosby and respect for Arden, she repents, and goes on sinning; wishes to get disentangled, but is overmastered by Mosby's stronger will.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Vocabulary lists containing vacillating
Frankenstein
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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