- present tense form of vacillate (3rd person singular).
vacillates
Example Sentences
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It is closer to music than epic, a mesmerizing suite of songs that conveys Tennyson’s private sorrow as he vacillates from unbearable agony to precarious hope.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, Merritt vacillates between despair at the prospect of her eviction and elation when she dreams of returning to Poplar Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024
He apparently vacillates between moments of sleeping with his mouth open in a sign of utter disinterest and being jolted to stare menacingly at witnesses, the judge and other people in the courtroom.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2024
The rhythmic language vacillates widely between insistent pulse and total freedom.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Thought dies out before him, the will is unseated and vacillates, we are cowed like Antony beside Cæsar.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
