How to Use equivocate in a Sentence

equivocate

verb

• The applicant seemed to be equivocating when we asked him about his last job.
• When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate.
• There’s no reason to doubt or to equivocate with calls to unite.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• This is where sometimes talk show hosts try to equivocate.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2019
• There is a simple way to put this to bed: be unapologetic about what the facts of science are, and do not equivocate to the base.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2012
• And yet even Martha, who does not equivocate about her caviar or apologize for her pack of purebred dogs, is stuck with the same internet as the rest of us.
  — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appétit, 7 Dec. 2023
• Both López-Gatell and López Obrador equivocate on the effectiveness of wearing face masks.
  — David Agren, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2020
• No one equivocated or added that the price depended on the country or region or where the wine was made, or the type of grapes, the winemaker or the vintage.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• But Chou — with Emily’s List, which endorsed Laufer — said the issue is too hot for equivocating.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Although his shyness has abated only a little, the adults don’t have to equivocate any more.
  — Katherine Jones, idahostatesman, 9 Mar. 2018
• That reflects a frustration that France and Germany have often been seen to equivocate in their support for Kyiv.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 July 2022
• Don’t equivocate, give an honest opinion but do it with kindness.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• As the fall approaches, first-year students who have already paid their admission deposits have been left in the dark as schools equivocate.
  — NBC News, 20 May 2021
• This is, after all, the same guy who equivocated over the murder of a protestor by a white nationalist and still can claim the support of about four in 10 voters.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Her equivocating remarks over the weekend left reason to wonder about the coherence of the White House’s strategy.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 4 Mar. 2024
• Government officials used to equivocate about the value of a strong dollar.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• Mrs. Obama added, seeking to turn Mr. Trump’s equivocating words in Wednesday’s debate against him.
  — Mark Landler and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
• Stop equivocating on the perfect Christmas present for the would-be chef in your life (or even the experienced chef who needs a new set of pans or has recently been complaining about the dullness of her chef’s knife).
  — Elisabeth Sherman, PEOPLE.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Resuscitating this pseudo-scandal gives Trump and his allies in Congress and the media a tool with which to obfuscate and equivocate.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 22 Dec. 2017
• The likelihood that males equivocate in their ratings of common fears was evaluated.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
• At its most political, Kuriki-Olivo’s work is also at its most literal, and tends not to equivocate.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• This is not presented to serve as an excuse, nor to try and equivocate industries that are vastly different from one another.
  — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 5 June 2022
• Trump has equivocated, criticizing the bill as a giveaway to insurers yet also suggesting a deal could still be made.
  — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The summary of the transcript of Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart ought to stop his henchmen from equivocating and bloviating, but nope, writes Virginia Heffernan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• Malpass, after all, is leaving amid blowback over his comments last fall equivocating as to whether fossil fuels cause climate change.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• What would be the experience be for a person of color to work for a man who advocated for the death penalty of five innocent black boys but equivocates the morality of white supremacists?
  — Taylor Crumpton, Teen Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• Across almost every network, hosts went in on both Flynn and Trump the way surrogates equivocated about his resignation.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 15 Feb. 2017
• As multiple tech companies turned their backs on Jones and his hate speech toward immigrants and minorities, Twitter was the main platform left still equivocating.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2018
• Half equivocated about which of the two organizations was more trustworthy.
  — Nadav Ziv, Time, 16 Mar. 2020
• The power of money to influence legislation and the thoughtlessness of the Supreme Court to equivocate money as free speech and to state that corporations have constitutional rights are mind-numbing.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024