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

Foster dithers over a clearance, the ball at his feet.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019

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

Tilly dithers in the little porch, waiting to open the door.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)