- present tense form of vacillate (3rd person singular).
vacillates
Example Sentences
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Once he settles on the sofa beside me, McKellen vacillates between performative storytelling and genuine reflection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
But Bruni easily could have been talking about Sacred Heart Hospital, whose staff vacillates between bridging the compassion gap between medical professionals and patients and managing our expectations.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
She vacillates between optimism and despair over Iran’s future.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
But knowledge is changeable, and often vacillates between truth and error, yet, as a rule, is rectified more and more in the course of life, though certainly in very different degrees.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
