vacillate
verb (used without object)
to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
had been vacillating
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past perfect progressiveof vacillate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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I had been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
He had been vacillating between compliance and refusal, like an elastic ball which yields to compression and starts back to its swelling rotundity as soon as the pressure is taken off.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
All these months since Ellen had been working in the factory he had been vacillating.
From The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
For some time Andy had been vacillating between two colleges, but finally he had settled on Yale.
From Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery by Roy Eliot Stokes
