Wondering how to use Dither in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as fuss or flap.
Dither meaning
- To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- To do something nervously.
Using Dither
- The main meaning on this page is: To tremble, shake, or shiver. | To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay. | To do something nervously.
- Useful related words include: pother, fuss, flap, fret.
- In the example corpus, dither often appears in combinations such as: dither and, the dither, dither delay.
Context around Dither
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dither
- In this selection, "dither" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stop, democracies, plotters, delay, china and sounds stand out and add context to how "dither" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include can we dither and delay and end the dither and delay. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dither" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dither
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How much longer therefore can we dither and delay? (9 words)
I shall spare you the dither of the next couple hundred centuries. (12 words)
He arrived at the scene to find the entire workforce in a dither. (13 words)
He claimed Mr Corbyn had a "mind-boggling" position on Brexit, and said: "One thing is clear: the Sturgeon-Corbyn alliance would consign this country to months, if not years, of dither, delay, discord, division. (35 words)
During the hour-long debate Mr Johnson insisted he is determined to 'get Brexit done', and warned that all Labour had to offer was 'dither and delay, deadlock and division' by calling another referendum. (34 words)
Nor should it be an excuse to blindly accept the brave new world of rudderless and unprincipled diplomacy, which accepts a ruthless dictator as an “international statesman” and dither on serious national security issues. (34 words)
How much longer therefore can we dither and delay? (9 words)
Example sentences (14)
Labour is urging the Government to stop “dither and delaying” and revive the Bill’s chances of being passed, accusing them of being on the side of the killers.
I urge the Government to end the dither and delay and begin cross-party talks on social care now.
While democracies dither, China is silently undermining the roots of democracy throughout the world like a river systematically erodes the bank—until even the mightiest tree must fall.
During the hour-long debate Mr Johnson insisted he is determined to 'get Brexit done', and warned that all Labour had to offer was 'dither and delay, deadlock and division' by calling another referendum.
He claimed Mr Corbyn had a "mind-boggling" position on Brexit, and said: "One thing is clear: the Sturgeon-Corbyn alliance would consign this country to months, if not years, of dither, delay, discord, division.
How much longer therefore can we dither and delay?
Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, stressed the hung Parliament message, saying it would lead to more "dither, delay and deadlock".
Plotters dither in bid to oust PM: Anti-Brexit MPs will hold emergency talks on Monday to decide whether to.
I shall spare you the dither of the next couple hundred centuries.
Nor should it be an excuse to blindly accept the brave new world of rudderless and unprincipled diplomacy, which accepts a ruthless dictator as an “international statesman” and dither on serious national security issues.
An audio signal of very low level (with respect to the bit depth of the ADC) sampled without dither sounds extremely distorted and unpleasant.
He arrived at the scene to find the entire workforce in a dither.
Note that dither can only increase the resolution of a sampler, it cannot improve the linearity, and thus accuracy does not necessarily improve.
The Greeks dither out of fear in deciding a winner, because they did not want to insult one and have him abandon the war effort.
Common combinations with dither
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: