temporizing

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How to use temporizing in a sentence

  • Temperateness becomes temporizing; lessons become lectures; debate becomes domineering.

    Is Obama Too Thoughtful? | Michael Signer | February 13, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Would that not have been been temporizing with wrong things?

    Averil | Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • But this sort of thing was merely temporizing, and we finally had to abandon it for subjects more substantial.

    If You Don't Write Fiction | Charles Phelps Cushing
  • He broke through the temporizing caution of his predecessors by the Bull of Deposition against Elizabeth in 1570.

    Spenser | R. W. Church
  • temporizing will not do longer; now is the time for decision—for firm, persistent, resolute action.

  • Therefore by temporizing with the crowd you strengthen its unity and encourage the growth of its concerted will.

    Manpower | Lincoln Clarke Andrews

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