dithers

Example Sentences

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The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Neves pings a stupendous long ball out to the right for Cancelo, who cuts back to Joao Mario in the area but he dithers slightly, and hoofs the shot over the bar.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2018

But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018

Awarded a promotion, this biracial woman dithers in writing an online biography to accompany her new job title because she is reluctant to identify herself as Scarlet’s first black department head.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

He was genuinely fond of the woman, in spite of her mental dithers and schoolgirl mannerisms.

From Fifty Per Cent Prophet by Garrett, Randall