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
We've only to set out the plants, sit on the fence till the gigantic berries are ripe, than haul in the nets.
From Strawberry Acres by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
