Explore Vacillates through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vacillates meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of vacillate
Using Vacillates
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacillate
- In the example corpus, vacillates often appears in combinations such as: vacillates between.
Context around Vacillates
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vacillates
- In this selection, "vacillates" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leadership, government, barr, afraid and saying stand out and add context to how "vacillates" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as she vacillates between family and barr vacillates in his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vacillates" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vacillates
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In response Basil vacillates between superficial charm and blunt rudeness during his conversations with them. (15 words)
Yet our leadership vacillates, afraid it might offend a few Tories in seats we could win but probably won’t because we have nothing distinctive to say. (27 words)
In the fallout, Kennedy vacillates between doing the right thing no matter the consequences and trying to cover up any wrongdoing in order to protect his career. (27 words)
Of the Majority report (the Partition Plan areas) Dr Silver vacillates saying that he was prepared to "recommend to the Jewish people acceptance subject to further discussion of the constitutional and territorial provisions". (33 words)
As the economy collapses, the Government vacillates and the grim data on Covid-19 deaths continues rolling in, we have all been heartened by stories of people looking out for each other. (32 words)
As she vacillates between family time and working her corrupt deal on the side, she also has to cope with the duly hated Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) running for Congress. (30 words)
Example sentences (7)
Yet our leadership vacillates, afraid it might offend a few Tories in seats we could win but probably won’t because we have nothing distinctive to say.
As she vacillates between family time and working her corrupt deal on the side, she also has to cope with the duly hated Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) running for Congress.
As the economy collapses, the Government vacillates and the grim data on Covid-19 deaths continues rolling in, we have all been heartened by stories of people looking out for each other.
Barr vacillates in his public statements frequently from such careful, lawyerly descriptions of what Mueller did not find or establish to sweeping statements of vindication for Trump and his campaign.
In the fallout, Kennedy vacillates between doing the right thing no matter the consequences and trying to cover up any wrongdoing in order to protect his career.
In response Basil vacillates between superficial charm and blunt rudeness during his conversations with them.
Of the Majority report (the Partition Plan areas) Dr Silver vacillates saying that he was prepared to "recommend to the Jewish people acceptance subject to further discussion of the constitutional and territorial provisions".
Common combinations with vacillates
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: