How To Use Dither In A Sentence
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Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not?
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You've been dithering about this year 's holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable.
The Sun
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away.
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He seems rather dithery but in fact he works very calmly and efficiently.
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Stop dithering and choose which one you want!
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He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov.
New & Noteworthy
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Thanks to Cheney, "dither" has taken on a new connotation for me.
Mitchell Bard: We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"
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It is outrageous that a nation long famous for scientific invention is dithering about investing in the next generation of technologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ he said.
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He sensed much dithering over moves to buy new players and simply decided enough was enough and resigned.
The Sun
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You've been dithering about this year 's holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his dithering approach is still a hit with viewers, which is why bosses are keen to keep him on board.
The Sun
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As the federal government dithered, people died.
Times, Sunday Times
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That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.
Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
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This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
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The question is what the government should do, beyond dithering about caps on skilled workers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away.
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The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image.
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So being a messy, indecisive and disorganized ditherer is healthy!
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Well perhaps Cheney and Bush should have "dithered" a little more over invading Iraq and saved a bunch of lives.
New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012
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Throp looked at his wife, an 'there were a glint in her een that he'd niver seen theer afore; shoo were fair ditherin' wi 'pride an' flustration.
Tales of the Ridings
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While the Kyrgyz cities of Osh and Jalalabad burned, sending almost 100, 000 ethnic Uzbeks fleeing into Uzbekistan, Moscow dithered and then sent a few planeloads of humanitarian aid.
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Why was he dithering so much?
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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The result show the resolution of temperature measured by dither frequency is very high.
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Don't bother dithering over the appetizers, even though the lightly fried tofu with peanut sauce, chicken satay and green mango salad are all quite good.
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GIF may win out with the non-dithering, fewer color images while JPEG is excellent for dithered continuous tone images.
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The longer that the government dithers, the deeper we get into debt.
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To most voters he is weak, dithering and unclear about what he stands for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time and again he dithered and dallied on the baseline.
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Hello, Tyler, you're going to blow off Paul Samuelson because dithering Dan says he's "not convinced," although Dan's "not an economist," and he "hasn't seen the essay," and Samuelson is "way ... way smarter" than Dan?
Labor Market Puzzle, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Dithering like a nerk, I put my satchel down with some daft idea of climbing down, but finally thought better of things.
The Vatican Rip
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Because this government has spent the past 11 years dithering over its energy policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was dithering and wouldn't make up her mind unless forced to.
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You've been dithering about this year 's holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this.
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Does anybody believe Obama when he says "our resolve is unwavering" after dithering for 4 months, and saying he wants to exit by the end of his 1st term .... obviously when he needs his crazy left wing for his reelection bid.
Crowley: Obama says it's imperative U.S. sends a clear message
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PR would mean that this disappointing inconclusiveness, this national post-electoral dithering and huddling, becomes the norm.
Azeem Ibrahim: Proportional Representation Is Like a Box of Chocolates : You Never Know What You're Going to Get
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Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
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With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China.
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Six out of 10 complain the Prime Minister has a tendency to "dither" and only 26 per cent believe he has shown decisive leadership.
Archive 2008-04-01
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I want to write about dithering, you see.
Times, Sunday Times
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The French didn't think much of her dithering and she soon became unpopular.
Times, Sunday Times
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To most voters he is weak, dithering and unclear about what he stands for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still I dithered, rationalizing delay and ignorance.
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Dick Cheney ought to be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity; the World Court should not "dither" about filing such charges against him and George W. Bush.
Of Dithering and Ditherers
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I have since upgraded to a 72 gallon “bowfront” with small fish including: blennies, gobies, clownfish, firefish, and black molies that serve as “dither fish”.
Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Faced with a Europe of fatties, governments across the EU are dithering in the face of pressure from multinational companies.
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However, the dithering on the 24-bit photos we beamed over was very apparent thanks to the screen's low dot pitch.
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Bush and Cheney are really the people that "dithered".
WH denies Afghan decision made, as tensions flare with Pentagon
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I want to write about dithering, you see.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years of government dithering over the airport's future have undoubtedly stoked frustrations.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the US took decisive action to boost its economy and stockmarkets last week by cutting interest rates further, European Union ministers squabbled among themselves - and may yet pay the price for such dithering.
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The young, lovely widow dithered between laughter and tears as her three photogenic (if genetically improbable) children machinated to get themselves a new daddy.
Murder to Go
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I take that back, the thing that's MOST galling is that he's going to continue to allow American troops to DIE NEEDLESSLY while he dithers about looking smart and thoughtful.
Discourse.net: Two Words MIA
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And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe.
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In all of his hawkish bravado, Cheney has never explained why he could not find Bin Laden, or why he "dithered" as the Afghanistan war string along for 8 long years.
Afghanistan: Pay for it or charge it?
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Question 8 Your prospective tenant is dithering about whether to sign up for a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The French didn't think much of her dithering and she soon became unpopular.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want to write about dithering, you see.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken.
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Further, a semiconductor integrated circuit has a dither pattern generator, an adder, and an error distribution unit.
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Why the British Government is dithering is beyond me.
The Sun
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I have since upgraded to a 72 gallon “bowfront” with small fish including: blennies, gobies, clownfish, firefish, and black molies that serve as “dither fish”.
Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
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And then to cap it all he couldn't even stop his dithering without making a complete 'Horlicks' of it.
Dithering and Dissembling
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And the indications are that after decades of dithering, the government is ready to go ahead and spend it.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, no, the dear heaven knows, and the farther the from it, if the whole stole stale mis betold, whoever the gulpable, and whatever the pulpous was, the twooned togethered, and giving the mhost phassionable wheathers, they were doing a lally a lolly a dither
Finnegans Wake
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Gideon is in a bit of a dither about what to wear for the interview.
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Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that Saga's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
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Why was he dithering so much?
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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He seems rather dithery but in fact he works very calmly and efficiently.
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Why are we still dithering?
The Sun
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The limited access to anti-retrovirals and national government's dithering further dims their future.
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Why was he dithering so much?
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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It is outrageous that a nation long famous for scientific invention is dithering about investing in the next generation of technologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Image processor using both dither and error diffusion to produce halftone images with less flicker and patterns
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While the Government dithers, the project continues to suffer mind-boggling cost escalation at the rate of Rs. 55 lakh a day.
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Why are we still dithering?
The Sun
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he was in a dither
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And I'm getting some highlights put in this lank, lifeless hair of mine on Friday, after dithering over the idea for at least two years.
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Rather than putting the ball down behind the posts, he dithered and had a boot on the dead-ball line when he grounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why are we still dithering?
The Sun
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Boards of highly paid, bonus-rich directors seem to be bunkered down behind a dithering yeomanry of press officers and media advisers as the regulatory cavalry charges in.
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That will mean dithering and delay at a time when urgent and decisive and - yes - deeply unpopular action is needed.
The Sun
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One was George McClellan, the dithering gold-bricker Grant eventually replaced as head of the Union armies.
Who
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And the indications are that after decades of dithering, the government is ready to go ahead and spend it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why the British Government is dithering is beyond me.
The Sun
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Chilean president Michelle Bachelet 'dithered' on Chile earthquake
WN.com - Articles related to CAPITAL CULTURE: Obama tackles boys club image
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That will mean dithering and delay at a time when urgent and decisive and - yes - deeply unpopular action is needed.
The Sun
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You've been dithering about this year 's holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dithering intel analysts as well as presidents can find themselves behind public knowledge and perception.
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They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves.
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We're still dithering over whether to marry.
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As a veteran, I am not pleased with the suggestion that we "dithered" in Iraq.
Obama considering 4 options for Afghanistan, sources say
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As we spent time dithering on what to have it was reassuring to feel as though the staff weren't hurrying us along.
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And the indications are that after decades of dithering, the government is ready to go ahead and spend it.
Times, Sunday Times
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'I's boun' home, 'says Doed, an' his teeth started ditherin 'wi' freet.
More Tales of the Ridings
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We're still dithering over whether to marry.
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Question 8 Your prospective tenant is dithering about whether to sign up for a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sensed much dithering over moves to buy new players and simply decided enough was enough and resigned.
The Sun
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Years of government dithering over the airport's future have undoubtedly stoked frustrations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Question 8 Your prospective tenant is dithering about whether to sign up for a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years of government dithering over the airport's future have undoubtedly stoked frustrations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, as she dithers, I put more and more things into boxes.
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Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
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He "dithered" all year, and now he is deploying more troops.
Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
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Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable.
The Sun
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But his dithering approach is still a hit with viewers, which is why bosses are keen to keep him on board.
The Sun
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As a foil for the ingenious Hardy Boys, he created two stumblebum local police officers, Chief Collig and Deputy Smuff, who dithered and blundered and misinterpreted clue after clue.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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He merely made an analogy that the GOP's dithering on helping get health care reform enacted is the same thing they did when civil rights laws were being proposed.
GOP head demands apology for slavery remark
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Stop dithering and choose which one you want!
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Question 8 Your prospective tenant is dithering about whether to sign up for a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
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The question is what the government should do, beyond dithering about caps on skilled workers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching.
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Where Sinclair had been cool-headed in response, Turner had dithered, where Sinclair had been ruthless, he had been woolly.
THE SCAR
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Many may criticise him for speaking out, but I am scunnered as to know how else he would have got through to that dithering and self serving political coward who resided in No11 and then moved next door to No10?
General Dannatt = Government of all the talents?
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It is outrageous that a nation long famous for scientific invention is dithering about investing in the next generation of technologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Openness to a range of options becomes weakness, thinking things through is dithering and willingness to accept the idea that you might sometimes be wrong is political suicide.
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In the two months that Mr Obama has "dithered" - a word that is increasingly used across the political spectrum - over the McChrystal request, 96 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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Greer scorns the spectacle of ‘a modern Hamlet bumbling and dithering around the stage, shadow-boxing with his own personality, especially when the part is played in a cinematic inward-turning way.’
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Their frustrations and ire were directed at a dithering Government and bungling quangos, not those who promote the sport in this country.
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The power supply is currently dangerously low due to the closure of coal and nuclear plants and the Government dithering on their replacements.
The Sun
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The Empress is in a dither about the sprinklers again.
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Years of government dithering over the airport's future have undoubtedly stoked frustrations.
Times, Sunday Times
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All that has done is provide us with a rich trove of oddball entertainment ranging from Sarah Palin's dithery dead-fish metaphors to the beetle-browed death threats of G. Gordon Liddy and the blatant racism of Pat Buchanan.
Summer Rerun
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I pick out sleekit (sly) which I know from Burns, but most words: swick (cheat) swither (dither) and jouk (dodge) are new to me.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
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But the time for dithering and half-hearted stop-go reflation is over, particularly given the perilous state of a global economy that still shows no sign of imminent recovery.
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The French didn't think much of her dithering and she soon became unpopular.
Times, Sunday Times
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Consequently when with a careless flourish he whisked between two bloodwoods the sled struck one with a shock that for a moment "dithered" the Island.
My Tropic Isle
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We'd been dithering about doing that, and it just made up our minds.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his dithering approach is still a hit with viewers, which is why bosses are keen to keep him on board.
The Sun
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After recent ditherings in which it regarded services operating at speeds of 128 kbit/s as both broadband and narrowband, the telecoms regulator has come off the fence.
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Turkey condemns what it calls atrocities in Syria and says the world cannot watch another Sarajevo, the Bosnian city that endured years of siege warfare and international dithering in the 1990s.
The Seattle Times
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Why are we still dithering?
The Sun
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His moment of authority coming as it does after an evening of dither and doubt is a well thought out and crafted piece of acting.
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He spent a while working the fix, a while dithering, and finally forced himself to take the notebook from hiding inside the inop - erative loran receiver.
The Heirs of Babylon
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After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither.
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Why was he dithering so much?
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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When Hillsman accused mainstream Democrats of "sandbagging" Lamont by holding off on information and aid — in essence, dithering over its commitment to the official party nominee — Davis became apoplectic and prosecutorial.
Scrap at Yale Highlights New Social Divide: Global Elites Vs. Populist Realists
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But his dithering approach is still a hit with viewers, which is why bosses are keen to keep him on board.
The Sun
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Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that the company's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
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While the government dithers, the awful record of deaths at work gets worse.
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His Government is adrift dithering and indecisive.
The Sun
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We'd been dithering about doing that, and it just made up our minds.
Times, Sunday Times
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A year ago, while Sotherton was dithering over whether to quit her job as a debt collector and train full-time for the heptathlon, her mother advised her to take the plunge.
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It is outrageous that a nation long famous for scientific invention is dithering about investing in the next generation of technologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am still dithering over whether this would best be accompanied by savoy cabbage or French beans.
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Instead, the government opted for dither and funk.
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Dibden Bay and Southampton have been delayed and they are dithering about Bathside.
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The French didn't think much of her dithering and she soon became unpopular.
Times, Sunday Times
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To most voters he is weak, dithering and unclear about what he stands for.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was dithering between a couple of choices but when the manager told me the gravadlax was cured in house, my decision was made.
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Moreover alveolus clearances in transmission machine could submerge the rotor's libration so as to decrease loads' dithering.
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And the indications are that after decades of dithering, the government is ready to go ahead and spend it.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was always in a dither of affected coquetry, and he had begun to think he had misjudged her character.
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The power supply is currently dangerously low due to the closure of coal and nuclear plants and the Government dithering on their replacements.
The Sun
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Ke ile ka kgothatswa ke boleng ba seabo le kabelo ho tswa ho dikemedi ditherisanong tseo, mme ka bona hore lona, di-comrade le ile la itokisetsa hantle mme la bala ditokomane tsa ditherisano.
Puo ya ho kwala mosebetsi ya MoPresidente wa African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, Khanseleng e akaretsang ya bobedi ya naha ya ANC Tshwane
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We'd been dithering about doing that, and it just made up our minds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want to write about dithering, you see.
Times, Sunday Times
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In DXD mode, dither is selectable for stereo and surround monitors, but you must not use it.
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We'd been dithering about doing that, and it just made up our minds.
Times, Sunday Times
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That will mean dithering and delay at a time when urgent and decisive and - yes - deeply unpopular action is needed.
The Sun
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Should the military "dither" so we make this a never ending war.
Steele: Obama's speech 'must be the beginning, not the end'
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How Arsenal must rue the day they dithered over whether to buy Mata or not.
The Sun
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Mary charged out of the room in an obvious dither.
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As the federal government dithered, people died.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ke tlogile ke kgothatšwa ke boleng bja seabe seo se bego se fiwa ke dikemedi go ditherišano tšeo lena, le go bona gore lena dikhomreidi le be le badile ka botlalo mangwalo a ditherišano.
Polelo ya go Tswalela Modiro ya Presidente wa African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, Go Khansele Kakaret�o ya Bobedi Ya ANC Tshwane
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Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable.
The Sun
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While the FDA dithers, the case against selling EC over the counter weakens by the day.
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The shenanigans provoked uproar as the nation began to lose patience with the third party 's dithering backbenchers in the face of an economic crisis.
The Sun
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There is an inevitable escapade in Paris, followed by dithering, separation and reunion.
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Photoshop / ImageReady accomplishes this through dithering the image in one of three methods, selectable by the user: diffusion, pattern and noise.
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For God's sake stop dithering and make up your mind!
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Stop dithering and choose which one you want!
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As the Government dithers on the matter, he said, cancer sufferers in Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow are dying.
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It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
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Last year, Congress debated, dawdled and dithered.
Lawrence Bender: Congress: Stop Denying An Inconvenient Truth
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Here, without any further delaying in dishonor of Dick Cheney, I've decided to never use the word "dither" again from me, here are my top 11 favorite movies of 2007, and as usual, please feel free to add any you think I may have snubbed.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Stop dithering and choose which one you want!
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No weakness was tolerated, no dithering allowed.
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‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ Mr Burstow said.
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Because this government has spent the past 11 years dithering over its energy policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Government is adrift dithering and indecisive.
The Sun
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Because hanging around while someone dithers over their order was getting between him and his carefully crafted lifestyle.
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The dither is a # repetitive pattern, this should help the compression algorithm.
Doom9's Forum
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He insisted yesterday the deal was still on, despite more than a year of dithering and delays.
The Sun
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He insisted yesterday the deal was still on, despite more than a year of dithering and delays.
The Sun
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His Government is adrift dithering and indecisive.
The Sun
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Rather than putting the ball down behind the posts, he dithered and had a boot on the dead-ball line when he grounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why the British Government is dithering is beyond me.
The Sun
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The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable.
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While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it.
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He sensed much dithering over moves to buy new players and simply decided enough was enough and resigned.
The Sun
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There must be no more discussion, delay or dithering on building this interceptor tunnel.
