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How to use equivocate in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word equivocate? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them.
To equivocate in the face of it would be an absolute abdication of intellectual responsibility.
I am not one to equivocate the past so I will move on to current reading matter.
Canadians are fundamentally suspicious of any party that appears to equivocate about rights.
They furrow their concerned brows and squint gravely towards the cameras in their field camo but all you hear is hedge and evade and dodge and divert and equivocate.
The way to do so is not to equivocate between democrats and autocrats, as Lula seems to think.
He urged political leaders and officials alike not to delay or equivocate, or to set goals for a negotiation that are too modest.
In conversation, he can maneuver around without giving a direct answer if he feels it is necessary to equivocate.
Chafee is likely the only presidential candidate to endorse the metric system and equivocate on Isis.
The firm now insists that price information must no longer come directly from traders, with an incentive to lie or at least equivocate, but from back-office staff instead.
And if he asked what was wrong with her I wasn't going to equivocate because equivocation — any kind of uncertainty, a tremor in the voice, a tonal shift, playacting — is the surest lie detector.
Mr. Speaker, I was not attempting to equivocate.
Eight, we need not equivocate or appear ambiguous about the prior and continuing anti-terror and military presence we have in the Persian Gulf as we have also in Afghanistan.
Mr. Speaker, this afternoon I listened to the President of the Treasury Board equivocate, the Minister of Veterans Affairs regurgitate and the Minister of National Defence obfuscate.
When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate.
Examples from Classical Literature
I could not equivocate with this woman, I could no more lie to her sorrow than to the Judgment.
At least I equivocated, and to equivocate with one so loyal and simple was to deceive him.
She could not equivocate, neither could she go into details of a family history.
She looked at him, did not dare to equivocate, and bent her head in acquiescence.
Why suffer that lip I have kissed a thousand times to equivocate?
They might therefore deem it prudent to equivocate as a matter of safety.
Characters wino may equivocate to some degree eventually pledge allegiance to a cause they find to be both just and right.
The authors equivocate, however, on whether exactions are equitable and efficient solutions.
It's the other attorney's job to get the expert to equivocate about the value given.
But be sure you do not equivocate in the question of this girl.
This time the judges should not equivocate but should provide a full and resounding affirmation of marriage equality.
How could she equivocate, with her child lying dead in the house.
Parliament, instead of calling for urgent sittings to update laws that deal with aspects of terrorism, continues to equivocate without the urgency that the community feels.
Intellectuals, journalists, writers, academics, theoreticians, ideologues and others who choose to live under an authoritarian regime have to equivocate in order to survive.
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