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vacillates
verb as in go back and forth
Example Sentences
So the camera vacillates between loving Jep and holding him in contempt.
Don vacillates but ultimately helps Megan, realizing that her failure will be his responsibility.
Coach Taylor vacillates: reporting this behavior to the police is the right thing to do, but there is a game on Friday.
Between these ifs he vacillates, swung like a ship on stormy waters, touching heaven and hell.
Thought dies out before him, the will is unseated and vacillates, we are cowed like Antony beside Cæsar.
Beyond a doubt, Mr. Buchanan is faithful to the slaveholding class, as Mr. Fillmore vacillates between it and its opponents.
He vacillates abominably and forever between two irreconcilable desires.
He vacillates unceasingly and takes turn by turn the most opposing viewpoints.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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