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Example sentences for "wavered"

Lexicographically close words:
waveless; wavelet; wavelets; wavelike; waver; waverers; wavering; waveringly; wavers; waves
  1. Throughout the country the prices wavered up and down, but were never low.

  2. This house, built in 1763, and kept by three generations of Abbotts, never wavered in the quality of its flip.

  3. At length the Moslem ranks wavered for an instant, gave back a little, and then broke in panic.

  4. Never had he wavered in his devotion to the cause of his Lord.

  5. Despite numerous endeavors, down to the present day, not a shred of convincing evidence has been produced showing that Luther ever wavered in this position, or changed his doctrine of grace.

  6. Even the great Hildebrand wavered in his policy toward Robert Guiscard.

  7. His eyes wavered as he stared at Loris for a long second, then dropped to the floor.

  8. His eyes wavered from the taxi to the mansion--then back again.

  9. She gasped and pointed a left hand finger, which wavered and went up to her hair as her palm pressed against the side of her head.

  10. Pale, pensive, joyless, his inflexible purposes of ambition wavered not--his iron energies yielded not.

  11. The Chinese attacking the boats wavered and fled, followed by those between the English and the river; and a party of bluejackets and marines, headed by Jack Rogers, was seen hurrying up from the water.

  12. The seamen jumped up, and the pirates, not expecting so warm a reception, wavered and fell back, leaving several dead and wounded close to the fort.

  13. Furthermore, he wavered when he tried to walk, and was glad to subside into a chair to which the woman guided him.

  14. Everywhere they were invading the big, silent hall, where the candle's grotesque shadows wavered across whitewashed wall and ceiling.

  15. Susan, however, never wavered in her conviction that she as a citizen had a constitutional right to vote and that it was her duty to test this right in the courts.

  16. Wright, and Matilda Joslyn Gage who never wavered in her allegiance.

  17. All who heard me thus declare believed it, and never wavered for a moment.

  18. Mr. Underhill came to my rescue in that dark hour of my life, when old and trusted friends wavered in opinion.

  19. We never die were I am--I shall love you always," and with that my dream wavered and grew misty as when clear water breaks an image into a thousand glassy rings and fragments.

  20. The sound wavered and trembled with long and solemn intervals of shivering vibration between.

  21. At the voice of the multitude he wavered as though affected by some powerful magnet.

  22. They were interrupted by the rattle of dishes outside, and Dextry was about to open the door when his hand wavered uncertainly above the knob, for he heard the hearty greeting of the ship’s captain.

  23. The Kid hesitated an instant, while his eyes, which had been fixed with the glare of hatred, wavered a moment, betraying the faintest sign of indecision.

  24. The sunken flags in the road formed a narrow aqueduct that wavered down a lane of mire.

  25. If she met that band which he had just broken through--He wavered in the darkness, and was turning wildly to race back, when a sudden light sprang up before him in her window.

  26. While he spoke, the din outside the walls wavered and sank, at last giving place to a shrill, tiny interlude of insect voices.

  27. Fentress' thin lips opened, twitched, but no sound came from them; then his glance wavered and fell.

  28. He strode out among the gun muzzles which wavered where they still covered him.

  29. His scheme seemed impracticable as for an instant he wavered at the head of the ladder that served as a stairway; the next moment his foot was upon the rungs, his light, lithe figure slipping down it like a shadow.

  30. But Gracchus has not so much as wavered in his purpose to keep aloof from Antiochus and all concern with his affairs.

  31. I am obliged to say,' I replied, 'that I have wavered in my judgment.

  32. Not that her faith in Bastian Cautley wavered for an instant.

  33. The paralytic pencil wavered and came to a full stop.

  34. The rebel lines came surging on, elated with victory; but before our steady fire they wavered and came to a halt.

  35. As they moved up the bank upon which we were, a volley burst upon them before which they wavered and swerved backward a few paces, as here and there a man reeled and staggered or sank to the earth.

  36. For an instant the room wavered and darkened; then she recovered a torturing acuteness of vision.

  37. The footman wavered and she fancied herself lost; but at that instant the door opened from within and John Arment stepped into the hall.

  38. It was still closed, and she wavered in her turn, disliking to disturb her husband, yet anxious that he should not exceed his normal measure of work.

  39. After she dressed and left the room without their having dared to say anything to each other, I wavered between two doubts.

  40. His hands wavered in the air, then fell down again.

  41. And involuntarily my hand wavered to my heart.

  42. The moonlight was bright and golden, and the shadows of the vines that stirred against the sky wavered all over her as she stood before him.

  43. He hardly saw clearly what that might be; it wavered like a hovering light behind the mist.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wavered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.