dithering

Example Sentences

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“Fashion is art,” declared the Met’s director, Max Hollein, at the show’s press preview last week, as if to say, Let’s stop dithering on the subject.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

While the UK was "dithering", the US, Greece and France have all sent ships to Cyprus, she said.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

After some dithering, I settled on my home state of New York.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

It would rather binge-watch thousands of hours of trashy TV shows than deal with the dithering crew of space hippies to which it’s been assigned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

It was a pretense, his dithering refusal—he was one of the most confident people she had ever met.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan