dithers

Example Sentences

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And so even if Congress dithers after today, transparency is coming to platforms one way or another.

From The Verge • May 5, 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

Awarded a promotion, this biracial woman dithers in writing an online biography to accompany her new job title because she is reluctant to identify herself as Scarlet’s first black department head.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

In dithers a candle, and an elderly, bearded man in gold-coloured corduroys, and an amazing object on a long, long spear.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)