Example sentences for: vacillated

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

  • It vacillated for months before going with the show's proposal; it also recently turned down another ad request by a cruise line that targets lesbians, on the grounds that "discussion about same-sex lifestyles is more appropriate in programming" (where it will probably be sanitized).

  • Ever since Al Gore woke up and opened fire on Bill Bradley, Gore has vacillated between two lines of attack.

  • While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.

  • That elation was followed at once by the ineluctable conviction that the other submissions must have been very bad for my poor effort to have taken the prize, and my feelings about the story have vacillated between those extremes ever since.

  • For months, Gore vacillated between calling Bradley a liberal budget-buster and calling him a crypto-Reaganite menace to federal entitlements.


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