vacillate
verb (used without object)
to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
were 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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A giant Peads & Barnetts pork chop is garnished with a slab of chewy house-made bacon, in case you were vacillating between that dish and the pudding-soft braised bacon with sorghum and black-eyed peas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
It was not the sensitive mouth of the through and through artist, and the lines of it were vacillating.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
The legs of the old lady had become so ponderous that she required a stick to assist her to drag herself into the dining-room, and there she thought the walls were vacillating around her.
From Theresa Raquin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Suppose the States were vacillating and in doubt where to go.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
Observe, that if I were vacillating, I should not be so weak as to tease you with the process of the vacillation: I should wait till my pendulum ceased swinging.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
