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.
  • For what seems like the first time, Casper equivocates.
    — Gary Greenberg, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no reason to doubt or to equivocate with calls to unite.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
  • That’s 937 quarts…which equivocates to almost one ton per day.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Don’t equivocate, give an honest opinion but do it with kindness.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Brooks, for his part, equivocated.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Although his shyness has abated only a little, the adults don’t have to equivocate any more.
    — Katherine Jones, idahostatesman, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Mace equivocated, saying Collins would need to reread the quotes to her, which the journalist did.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This was after much pressing and equivocating, number one.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Government officials used to equivocate about the value of a strong dollar.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Brooks, for his part, equivocated … A bout of frantic rebranding ensued.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The likelihood that males equivocate in their ratings of common fears was evaluated.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Half equivocated about which of the two organizations was more trustworthy.
    — Nadav Ziv, Time, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Both López-Gatell and López Obrador equivocate on the effectiveness of wearing face masks.
    — David Agren, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The question of who stands against this darkness — and who equivocates — will be determined by civilizational identity.
    — Calev Myers, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The White House has reportedly equivocated its support of Means in recent weeks.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But the judge’s equivocating ruling in that piracy case created a loophole, according to Anthropic’s lawyers.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • There was no pretense about her, no slickness, no political glad-handing or equivocating, just a woman who knew the value of her work and the quality of her project and was crystal clear on how it should be done.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024

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