vacillate
Example Sentences
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Washington has vacillated between pressing Europe to hit China with tariffs to cutting its own deals with Beijing.
His yellow eyes vacillate between me and Autumn.
From Literature
Both sides have vacillated between tough talk and de-escalation in recent days, but the rhetoric took a harder turn on Tuesday.
“He was begging to be able to do something on the offensive side,” Skipper said of the redshirt junior, who has vacillated between the offensive and defensive lines during his seven seasons with the team.
From Los Angeles Times
When the conspiracy at the center of “The Chair Company” consumes the life of Ron Trosper, he vacillates between screaming fury and the type of validation that lights up his smile from the inside.
From Salon
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