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
Coleridge's projects, at the outset of life, were vacillating.
From Charles Lamb by Barry Cornwall
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
The western half of Germany had taken up arms in its behalf; the military everywhere were vacillating; in the lesser States they were undoubtedly favorable to the movement.
From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Karl Marx
In the sixth century, when the Slavs were vacillating between the influence of the past and the present, the celebration of the Pentecost was mixed up with that of the half-pagan, half-barbarous rousalia.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
