Example sentences for: dithering

How can you use “dithering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As McCain has stated over and over in his defense, he never told the FCC to approve the transfer; he just asked it to stop dithering and make a decision.

  • Nowhere in The Lost World 's bestiary is there a creature that behaves with the motivational abandon of that snake in Anaconda : striking minor characters with accuracy and blinding velocity in one scene, hovering and hissing and generally dithering around in the next, so that the heroine has plenty of time to escape.

  • Perhaps the most notorious example of English dithering in this matter is the word for which a Himalayan snow monster is named.

  • The many accomplishments of Clinton's administration, most especially his management of the economy, resulted much more from the sharpness and discipline of Clinton's mind than from the shiftiness and dithering of Clinton's temperament (which some people have mistaken for brilliant leadership).

  • The NYT front page also covers this development, in a piece that points out that many economists think the Japanese government has prolonged the Japanese downturn and that of the region by dithering.


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