vacillate
verb (used without object)
to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
was vacillating
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past progressiveof vacillate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There were grumblings that Kennedy was vacillating and taking a long time with the job.*
From Time Magazine Archive
He was vacillating and lazy, as well as selfish.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He was vacillating in his faith, but was by no means persuaded of the truth of Universalism.
From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou
She looked into his face imploringly, and she saw that he was vacillating.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
The Miami chiefs arrived for an apparently friendly council, but the Stone Eater was vacillating, and already under the influence of the Prophet.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce
