Example Sentences

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The performers all look up at the audience with weird smiles, and the tone is unstable, oscillating indecisively between surreal and sentimental.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

A Major League Baseball season unfolds slowly and often indecisively.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022

Malik fiddled indecisively outside off stump, his feet in cement, and gave a simple catch to Bairstow.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

Military analysts said these plans and the intensified bombing of Tripoli reflected growing Western worries that Libya's civil war was dragging on indecisively.

From Reuters • May 25, 2011

“Fleur’s sister’s a bridesmaid, she needs to be here for the rehearsal, and she’s too young to come on her own,” said Hermione, as she pored indecisively over Break with a Banshee.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling