sit on the fence
Example Sentences
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It's hard to back either team to get the win, so I am going to sit on the fence here.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
“They need to be condemned and there’s no place to sit on the fence here: You’re either condemning it or you’re condoning it.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
"We must no longer sit on the fence," Edelstein tweeted after he and an Israeli opposition lawmaker, Zeev Elkin, met Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
Ukraine was “trying to sit on the fence and avoid any sensitive issues with Beijing, and expected the same from China,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
Let us sit on the fence and enjoy this spectacle!
From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton
