Example sentences for: dithering

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

  • Clinton said it was Betty who became friends with Monica," Dowd wrote in the March 8 New York Times . "It makes sense that the 58-year-old secretary, known for her dignity and discretion, would have enjoyed the dithering visits of a shopaholic who thought she was having a high school romance with the President, like, of the United States."

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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