VACILLATION in a Sentence

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When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.

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 Meanings and Examples of VACILLATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vacillation
 n.  act of vacillating; moving one way and other; wavering
Classic Sentence:
1  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
2  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
3  The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
Example Sentence:
1  This combination of stubbornness and vacillation is getting to look really creepy.
2  In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
3  The big boss likes his people to be decisive: when he asks you for your opinion, whatever you do, don't vacillate.