Explore Vacillation through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like hesitation or movement. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vacillation in a sentence
Vacillation meaning
- Indecision in speech or action.
- Changing location by moving back and forth.
Synonyms of Vacillation
Using Vacillation
- The main meaning on this page is: Indecision in speech or action. | Changing location by moving back and forth.
- Useful related words include: hesitation, movement, motion, swinging.
- In the example corpus, vacillation often appears in combinations such as: vacillation and, vacillation between, this vacillation.
Context around Vacillation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vacillation
- In this selection, "vacillation" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, referendum and obtained stand out and add context to how "vacillation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after some vacillation obtained the and post referendum vacillation and insecurity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vacillation" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vacillation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Reflecting this vacillation, some Chinese soldiers were quite liberally firing at foreigners under siege from its very onset. (18 words)
In many recent loanwords, there is vacillation between representing an original voiceless consonant as single or geminate: this is the case for example kalsium (~ kalssium) and kantarelli (~ kanttarelli). (28 words)
Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. (28 words)
This vacillation between meter and word stress highlights the fact that Latin literature was still in its infancy, and that there was not yet a standard way to write verse. (30 words)
His comments come after Johnson, writing in the Daily Mail, accused the West of "vacillation" and “sucking-and-blowing-at-once" in its handling of Putin over two decades. (29 words)
But Kirkpatrick’s plans—and his ability to place himself in the position of a European audience—present a stark contrast with today’s post-referendum vacillation and insecurity. (29 words)
Example sentences (6)
His comments come after Johnson, writing in the Daily Mail, accused the West of "vacillation" and “sucking-and-blowing-at-once" in its handling of Putin over two decades.
But Kirkpatrick’s plans—and his ability to place himself in the position of a European audience—present a stark contrast with today’s post-referendum vacillation and insecurity.
In many recent loanwords, there is vacillation between representing an original voiceless consonant as single or geminate: this is the case for example kalsium (~ kalssium) and kantarelli (~ kanttarelli).
Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895.
Reflecting this vacillation, some Chinese soldiers were quite liberally firing at foreigners under siege from its very onset.
This vacillation between meter and word stress highlights the fact that Latin literature was still in its infancy, and that there was not yet a standard way to write verse.
Common combinations with vacillation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: