How to Use vacillate in a Sentence

vacillate

verb

• She has vacillated on this issue.
• But Putin seemed to vacillate on his own support for Prigozhin.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• Yet the coalition vacillated over the plan as soon as it was announced.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• But Aguilera arrived hours late to court, and began to cry while vacillating over the deal.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 19 Jan. 2018
• The lake of my childhood had always vacillated somewhere between a slate blue and the gray found in the seams of an old tennis ball.
  — Robert Moor, New York Times, 23 May 2017
• The process, at times, has left him vacillating from tears of self-pity to intense anger and severe depression.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The viewer sees the world through Luli's eyes, vacillating between who could be her savior and who's the real villain.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2012
• With this record, has the idea of expectation changed for you at all in terms of reception or the idea of vacillating between styles or sounds?
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2017
• All around, neighbors are vacillating on whether to rebuild or move away.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2018
• Then there will be players who vacillate about the vaccine, guys like Tampa Bay’s Leonard Fournette.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
• Today, she’s got her heart set on a tissue box, vacillating between sky blue and black.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2024
• Biden’s team has, for months, vacillated between the best message for the candidate.
  — Time, 23 Oct. 2019
• The home quietly vacillates between high-glam and lived-in—a space distinctly her own, designed on her own terms.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 26 July 2019
• The caffeine breakdowns can vacillate for other forms of coffee, too.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Mar. 2019
• Some dedicate half or whole days to each of their primary processes, but the key is to not vacillate back-and-forth between them.
  — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• The White House has vacillated in recent days about whether the two countries were holding preparatory talks in advance of the summit.
  — Peter Nicholas, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Throughout the night, the tone vacillated from celebratory to somber as the celebrities came to terms with their platform.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
• Trump has vacillated over his objectives for the meeting with Kim.
  — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• Whatever the motivation, it's been a long time coming for a team that has been content to spend the first 10 weeks of the season vacillating between kind of good and kind of bad.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 17 June 2017
• But after spending the first six weeks of the season vacillating between good and not so good, the Indians could use a little sizzle.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 20 May 2017
• Berry spends the entirety of the film vacillating between hysterics and hugs.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Berry spends the whole film vacillating between hysterics and hugs.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
• Gale-force winds and vacillating currents drove the Hōkūleʻa into its escort boat, leaving a gaping hole in the vessel’s starboard.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• Gale-force winds and vacillating currents drove the Hōkūleʻa into its escort boat, leaving a gaping hole in the vessel’s starboard.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• But on Thursday, House Republicans vacillated on whether a third House speaker vote would be to their taste.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• But Fukuyama vacillates throughout on how great a threat aspiring Supermen in the Nietzschean mold might pose to the peace at the end of history.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Trump vacillated for months on whether to pick Shanahan, officials said.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2019
• Sfiha, ground meat blended with pomegranate molasses and a pantry-ful of spices, vacillates brightly between sweet and sour.
  — Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• In pieces like p1eta™️, Chapin tries to reconcile the polarity that women vacillate between — Eve as wicked and full of knowledge, the Virgin Mary as pure and worthy.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• Vekic vacillated often as the match wore on, taking any opportunity to sit down — even easing into a line judge’s chair at the back of the court during a challenge review at one point — and often icing her arm during changeovers.
  — Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024