Example Sentences
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Instead, I vacillated between forgetting all about cancer some days and feeling like death was imminent others, and it was hard to predict what would prompt either extreme.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Both sides have vacillated between tough talk and de-escalation in recent days, but the rhetoric took a harder turn on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
It was the first in a series of scary scenes for Brinkley, whose feelings for Joel vacillated between veneration, unconditional love and abject fear.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
My emotions vacillated from fury to giddiness to crushing depression on an hourly basis.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2023
She and Bunny had a relationship the likes of which I had seldom seen except in couples married for twenty years or more, a relationship which vacillated between the touching and the annoying.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
