VACILLATE in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for VACILLATE, such as:

1. The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
2. In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
3. This combination of stubbornness and vacillation is getting to look really creepy.
4. But in moments like this, the things which one sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing.
5. It was the same harsh voice, the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and vacillating glance.

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 Meanings and Examples of VACILLATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vacillate
 v.  sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate
Classic Sentence:
1  But in moments like this, the things which one sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
2  The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  Round the samovar and the hostess the conversation had been meanwhile vacillating in just the same way between three inevitable topics: the latest piece of public news, the theater, and scandal.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
4  When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 23
5  In the second category Pierre reckoned himself and others like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
6  It was the same harsh voice, the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and vacillating glance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
7  The vacillation between the various plans that were proposed had even increased after the Emperor had been at headquarters for a month.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
8  The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION
Example Sentence:
1  The big boss likes his people to be decisive: when he asks you for your opinion, whatever you do, don't vacillate.
2  In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
3  This combination of stubbornness and vacillation is getting to look really creepy.