dithers

Example Sentences

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But he just dithers or pouts or stares at her blankly while the bad guys close in.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Neves pings a stupendous long ball out to the right for Cancelo, who cuts back to Joao Mario in the area but he dithers slightly, and hoofs the shot over the bar.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2018

But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018

His eyes wink and sparkle in the huge white clump that dithers on his shoulders—a clump reddish on each side, where the ears were.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater