vacillate
verb (used without object)
to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
will vacillate
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future tenseof vacillate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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It’s a short chapter, only two pages, but already Cin shows that the book will vacillate between the calm familiarity of domestic affairs and a more portentous eeriness that infiltrates the proceedings.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
Most likely, you will vacillate a little between the two.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2020
Your children will vacillate between being sick, exhausted and hungry, and your own exhaustion will reach its depths.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2017
Kobe Bryant will vacillate often, surely, but the question will always be in the background: Is this his final season or will he return to the Lakers for one more year?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2015
But if you do not reinforce your intuition with a careful study of words, you will vacillate from one method to the other and strike crude discords of phrasing.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
