dithers

Example Sentences

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But he just dithers or pouts or stares at her blankly while the bad guys close in.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018

Awarded a promotion, this biracial woman dithers in writing an online biography to accompany her new job title because she is reluctant to identify herself as Scarlet’s first black department head.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

European officers in white drill and sun-helmets superintend the loading of their vessels, longing to be finished and away from a spot where everything vibrates and dithers in the white glare.

From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)