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
“There is no more time to hang back or sit on the fence or argue amongst ourselves. This is a challenge of our collective lifetime.”
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2021
There was nothing to do but sit on the fence.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon
